Perspectives on higher education ; critical issues analysed IB

PERSPECTIVES ON HIGHER EDU CATION makes a sharp focus on certain critical aspects of educational system in India. While making a survey of the structural phenomenon in university education, it attempts to delineate its strengths and weaknesses. It makes a studied plea for strengthening the base of higher education in India through spreading learning for the masses. The author's perspective is based on long. experience of teaching at the university level in India and abroad.

In recent times, the utility and futility of India's educational system at higher level have been a subject of discussion and probe by several committees and commissions and yet what we have today is basically the same pattern, mechanics and the various elements that were carved out by the Britishers. A fresh look is not what is needed but a thorough overhaul of the system without any delay seems to be the imperative of the present times.

The author forcefully presents certain segments of higher education with great objectivity. The subject is examined under three broad categories viz-, educational structure, teaching and per formance, and higher commerce educa tion. The five appendices of the book contain information of the University Grants Commission's latest draft (1978) of Policy Frame on Higher Education which was discussed in January, 1978 at Rajkot in a meeting of vice-chance llors where Prime Minister Morarji Desai also participated. There is also the text of Jaiprakash Narayan's Note on Educa tion he gave to the Government recently. The book also contains a highly useful bibliography.