Research Article | Open Access
INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION-ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Bubul Deka
Pages: 2721-2726
Abstract
Education has always been recognised as a major instrument for national development and socio-economic change. It is one of the most significant indicators of a country’s progress. In today’s world, education particularly higher education has a crucial role in facilitating a country to become successful in the emerging knowledge society. India has at present a fairly large and diversified system of higher education. The quantitative growth of the higher education sector since Independence in 1947 has been impressive. Today, India’s higher education system has become the third largest in the world, after the USA and China.
Keywords
Education has always been recognised as a major instrument for national development and socio-economic change.