Higher education in India

Higher education in India is one of the most developed in the entire world. Education has always been a high point in the very fabric of India. From time immemorial whether it was the Pandavas or the Mughals, Vivekananda or Dr Radhakrishnana, learning and knowledge have been the weapons to win over the world. More than any other country, India has churned out intelligentsia from every discipline. It was during the medieval period that universities began to come up in Delhi, Allahabad and Lucknow, and knowledge in theology, religion, philosophy, fine arts, painting, architecture, mathematics, medicine and astronomy, began to be studied and imbibed. There has in fact been considerable improvement in the higher education scenario of India in both quantitative and qualitative terms since then. In technical education, the IITs, and in management, the IIMs, have already marked their names among the top higher educational institutes of the world.

With growing population and the dire need to educate every youth, we require good universities, colleges and institutes that can provide quality education to the future citizens of the country. The government has done much in this field but it is the private institutes that are pitching in now to handle the immense pressure in the education sector. They are providing excellent infrastructure and every possible facility to students in order to churn out talent and target excellence in imparting knowledge,” says Saurabh Jain, executive director, Vidya Knowledge Park, Meerut, UP. “Whatever work could not be done by the government is being done by us. There are 500 million youth in our country aged less than 24 years. They need to be educated and there are number of colleges required to fulfill this need. The union and state government have not been able to fulfill this requirement due to meager resources. Although some private institutes are good, average or even poor, yet they are fulfilling the unfulfilled needs in the education sector.

All students cannot get admission in IITs and IIMs and so the role of private sector in education becomes important,” says Dr. Harivansh Chaturvedi, director, Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH). Dr Arun Mohan Sherry, Dean, IMT Ghaziabad, shares a similar view. He says, "The number of top management institutes like IIMs is limited. The role of good management institutes in the next rung becomes crucial as they also provide quality education -- our core strength is faculty. Our tie-ups with top employers ensure hundred percent placements. Moreover, the curriculum at IMT is designed on the basis of the requirements of industries..

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