Quality Issues in Education

Although education received much attention in India ever since independence, it is only during last decades, education has expanded remarkably as indicated by rapidly increasing number of professional institutions, massive increase in the students admissions, increase in number of  disciplines. Within this technological context, professionals play an ever more significant role. They develop new manufacturing processes and products; create and manage energy, transportation and communication systems; prevent new and redress old environmental problems; create pioneering health care devices. One of the strengths of professional education is the broad spectrum of colleges whose development has been constrained by a single-prescribed mission. While professional education has served the nation well, there is broad need of a big change to meet new challenges. Today colleges must not only provide their graduates with intellectual development and superb technical capabilities but following industry lead, colleges must educate their students to work as part of teams, communicate well and understand the economic, social, environmental and international context of their professional activities. Quality in the professional education is the development of intellectual skills and knowledge that will equip graduates to contribute to society through productive and satisfying careers as innovators, decision makers and leaders in the global economy of this century. A high quality professional can obviously be created only through high quality professional education.

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