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The pressure to increase access to affordable education is steadily increasing with the number of eligible students set to double by 2020. At the same time, significant problems exist in the quality of education provided. The sector is plagued by a shortage of well-trained faculty, poor infrastructure and outdated and irrelevant curricula. The use of technology in higher education remains limited and standards of research and teaching at Indian universities are far below international standards with no Indian university featured in any of the rankings of the top 200 institutions globally. The situation in Bihar is more alarming and the district of East Champaran, given the demographic profile is abysmally placed in …show more content…
Further expansion must be accompanied by offering a wider, diverse range of education—the student should be able to acquire skills in multiple disciplines while achieving a solid core set of skills and at a pace that is customized to individual’s capacity to learn. With this in mind, further expansion will require a re-examination of the design, organization, definition, and purpose of higher education. The strategy should strive to create diverse education opportunities to cater to the growing number of students passing out of higher secondary classes on the one hand and the diverse needs of the economy and society on the …show more content…
The new Mahatma Gandhi Central University and technical institutions are yet to become fully functional. However the condition of colleges remains dismal on various quantitative as well as qualitative parameters. The study is primed at assessing and comparing the Gross Enrollment Ratio in Higher Education Institutions for the country, state and the district, and ascertaining the reasons for such a huge divergence. Apart from this quantitative data, the study will also focus on the qualitative parameters that constitute substratum of this study highlighting the perceptions of learning environment and academic outcome of higher education in the district. For a holistic understanding of the entire scenario, it is imperative to understand the socio- cultural milieu which shapes the aspirations of the general mass. This study attempts to conduct an empirical survey of all the concerned stake holders viz. students, parents, faculty, administrators and civil society at
The pressure to increase access to affordable education is steadily increasing with the number of eligible students set to double by 2020. At the same time, significant problems exist in the quality of education provided. The sector is plagued by a shortage of well-trained faculty, poor infrastructure and outdated and irrelevant curricula. The use of technology in higher education remains limited and standards of research and teaching at Indian universities are far below international standards with no Indian university featured in any of the rankings of the top 200 institutions globally. The situation in Bihar is more alarming and the district of East Champaran, given the demographic profile is abysmally placed in …show more content…
Further expansion must be accompanied by offering a wider, diverse range of education—the student should be able to acquire skills in multiple disciplines while achieving a solid core set of skills and at a pace that is customized to individual’s capacity to learn. With this in mind, further expansion will require a re-examination of the design, organization, definition, and purpose of higher education. The strategy should strive to create diverse education opportunities to cater to the growing number of students passing out of higher secondary classes on the one hand and the diverse needs of the economy and society on the …show more content…
The new Mahatma Gandhi Central University and technical institutions are yet to become fully functional. However the condition of colleges remains dismal on various quantitative as well as qualitative parameters. The study is primed at assessing and comparing the Gross Enrollment Ratio in Higher Education Institutions for the country, state and the district, and ascertaining the reasons for such a huge divergence. Apart from this quantitative data, the study will also focus on the qualitative parameters that constitute substratum of this study highlighting the perceptions of learning environment and academic outcome of higher education in the district. For a holistic understanding of the entire scenario, it is imperative to understand the socio- cultural milieu which shapes the aspirations of the general mass. This study attempts to conduct an empirical survey of all the concerned stake holders viz. students, parents, faculty, administrators and civil society at