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CHALLENGES IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN 21ST CENTURY
Authors: Subhash Singh
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India is next only to China and USA in student enrollment in the higher education sector. The higher
education system in India has grown in a remarkable way, particularly in the post-independence
period, to become one of the largest system of its kind in the world. However, the system has many
issues of concern at present, like Issues of Governance, Access and Equity, Professional Ethics and
Value Education, Evaluation and Assessment Systems, Sustaining Quality, ICT initiatives, Promoting
Research, Convergence, Skill Development, Enhancing Employability, and others. These issues are
important for the country, as it is now engaged in the use of higher education as a powerful tool to
build a knowledge-based information society of the 21st Century. Recognizing the above and the basic
fact, which the Universities have to perform multiple roles, like creating new knowledge, acquiring
new capabilities and producing an intelligent human resource pool, through challenging teaching,
research and extension activities so as to balance both the need and the demand. Higher education is
no longer a luxury. Higher education is essential for any nation for its social and economic
development.