Modernization of Higher Education in India

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction to higher education. 2. Global challenge to higher education. 3. Development of college education. 4. Technology and higher education. 5. Importance and problems of university education. 6. Counselling and education. 7. Management of higher education. 8. Principles for education counselling. 9. Discipline in education. 10. Effective teaching. 11. Future of education. Index.

"As educational systems become more marketised, colleges, schools and non-formal education agencies seeks to build relationships based more on viewing learners as customers rather than participants. The main role of the teacher-turned-classroom manager is to legitimate through mandated subject matter and educational practices a market-based conception of the learner as simply a consumer of information. The result of this incursion by commerce and the widespread seeping of managerialism, market - thinking and consumerism into the orientation of educators is a basic inability within many schooling systems and agencies of informal education to address critically questions around globalisation, branding and consumption." (jacket)