Emerging issues and challenges in higher education

Education is one of the significant factors instrumental to the development of a country. It should be transformed to the needs of the time and changing scenario of the world. It provides an opportunity to critically reflect upon the social, economic, cultural, moral and spiritual issues facing humanity. India needs more efficient and educated people to drive our economy forward. There are many Indian around the corner who known for their capabilities and skills. To develop India as an education hub or to become a prosperous partner in global economy, India has to qualitatively strengthen education in general and higher education with research and development in particular. This paper aims to identify emerging issues and challenges in the filed of Higher Education(HE) in India, particularly in rural and semi-urban areas. Once we realized that the India is the highest HE-System itself. I have tried to focus on the issues related to student and issues related to largest academic system in the third world, with more than of five million students taking HE in more than 12000 colleges & universities. India is also the third world research super power, spending a large amount over it (8%) the planning and reform of higher education itself is very difficult problem as it is primarily dominated by the most dominant politicians, who run the institution as the commercial & profit making industry. An educationist have rightly pointed out that the Indian Higher Education in contradiction spockets of research are substandard colleges, the best graduated are successful in the world market but unemployment at home is a reality for many. Scholarship is often superseded by politics and in many institutions crisis is the norms.