Paradigm Shifts in Higher Education in India

Education, today, has very complex programs and products. The activities of higher education often involve highly intangible matter. Also institutions ‘compete ’in market with other institutions, but do not always have similar intensity to economic and social goals. But we cannot deny the fact that private participation in professional educational is a business and the self financing institutions comprise an industry with students entering them as consumers and coming out after skill development as products. This has led to several paradigm shifts in higher education, such as: From ‘State Controlled Education ’to an ‘Open Market Economy Education ’, From ‘Education for Human Development ’to ‘Education for Human Resource Development ’, From ‘Education for a Few ’to ‘Education for Many ’, From ‘National ’to ‘Global Education ’. This paper is an attempt to highlight paradigmshifts in higher education through intensive use of technology to realize the vision of shining India.