Some contemporary challenges of higher education in the 21^ST century

In the last sixty six years of independence, India has developed the world's largest system of education but it would be worthwhile to draw attention to the growth of numbers and the decline in quality. There is an aura of dissatisfaction among the public as the educational system in India today is resistant to change. There are many loose ends in the system making it neither relevant nor effective. The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed some dramatic changes that were ushered in mainly because of the break-down of political barriers and the unprecedented developments in the field of information technology. And this transformation which society is going through, calls for a rejuvenation in what we teach and how we teach. The whole educational ethos needs to undergo a change. The total structuring of educational institutions, a metamorphosis in curriculum, a check on unplanned breeding of institutions, a deliberate curbing of unguided and blind student enrolment is required for brining desired results.