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Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future
Contributor(s): Agarwal, Pawan (Author)

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 ISBN: 8178299410     ISBN-13: 9788178299419
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
OUR PRICE: $56.99  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Secondary
Dewey: 378.54
LCCN: 2009018479
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.7" W x 8.5" L (1.45 lbs) 524 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 197
 
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Demand for quality higher education, is continuing to outpace the supply due to growing population of young people, gains in school education, growing middle class and their rising aspirations. At the same time, the country has a unique opportunity to convert this demographic surplus to its economic strength by providing its young people the right kind of skills. Thus, higher education now occupies a central position in the country′s strategy for global competitiveness and inclusive growth. Steps have been initiated to augment supply, improve quality and fix problems. The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) has made several useful and important recommendations and the government has significantly increased funding during the Eleventh Five Year Plan.

In the backdrop of these developments, Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future, describes the Indian higher education landscape. The author spells out the needs, identifies the gaps, and based on the lessons learnt from the experiences of other countries provides perspectives to shape its future.


Contributor Bio(s): Agarwal, Pawan: -

Pawan Agarwal is serving as Adviser, Higher Education in the Planning Commission, where he has steered the formulation of the country's Twelfth Plan for Higher Education. He has earlier worked as Director in the Ministry of HRD and Financial Advisor, University Grants Commission.

He has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar at Harvard University/Emory University, a visiting scholar and fellow at ICRIER, New Delhi and the Centre for the Study of Higher Education in University of Melbourne. He is the recipient of the Emerging Leaders Fellowship of the Australia India Institute for the year 2011-12 and Bloomberg-UTV Policymaker of the Year, 2012.

He has conducted studies for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Inter-American Development Bank, the South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutions, the Observatory for the Borderless Education, and the Indian Council for International Economic Research. He has published on a range of higher education issues in India and comparative perspective in the South Asian context.

He has previously authored a book with SAGE India, titled Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future (2009).
 
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