Higher Education, Its Aims and Quality Concerns

In the emerging global world order, India is trying to position itself as a knowledge driven economy. Education is considered a very powerful instrument of social, Economic and cultural development. Higher education is one of the most potent means of creating skills manpower required for the development of various sectors of the economy of a nation, that forms one of the most important and crucial components of human resource development. Large scale changes are being talked about and may indeed be implemented. The challenges are many and momentous, and a successful transition in area is full of possibilities. The quality in higher education is the biggest need of the hour as our country is progressing towards becoming the educational hub of the world. First, present paper focuses on recommendations/reports on aims and objectives of higher education of various committees/commissions. This paper is divided into two sections, in first section the aim of higher education is discussed and for this context some views are provided like the aim 0f higher education should be the pursuit of excellence, happiness, well being and human resource development; In addition to creation of prepared minds for all the aspects of society and preparation of persons to play their part well as an enlightened. member of society. In second section, it focuses its attention on the issue of quality concerns in India and factors influencing the quality of education (itsproblems and challenges). After the identification of problems/challenges and factorsinfluencing quality of Higher Education this paper provides some recommendations/prognosis and key determinants for success in this context.