A Roadmap for Higher Education Policy Making In India

Description

The Book is a compendium of Articles written by the Author and published in the “University News (An official Weekly of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and Hans India ( An English National News Daily). The Book covers a wider canvas of issues that are highly contested and debated in the present times. Though there has been a talk about the New Education Policy for India, it has still remained at the Draft stage only. As the old adage goes ‘time and tide wait for none’. The scenario has dramatically transformed owing to the outbreak of Covid-19. The traditional methods of teaching-learning are undergoing severe strain and the educationists are forced to accustom to the new systems and processes. Online teaching and education, which were denounced at the beginning of the present century, are now accepted as the ‘saviours’. These and many other issues are discussed extensively in this Book. The Articles received wide appreciation from the policy makers and academia alike in the Higher Education Sector. The spectrum of coverage of the issues ranges from the aspects such as Financing, Rankings, Accreditation, Reforms in Teaching-Learning, Role of UGC and the new bodies proposed to be established by the Government of India. The most distinctive feature of the Book lies in its path breaking ideas like ‘Delinking Degrees from Jobs’, ‘Rating of Faculty’, ‘Virtual Education’ and ‘Anywhere Education and Examination on Demand’. The Book remains a Roadmap to the policy makers for reforming the Higher Education in India.

About The Author

Prof. K. V. Rao, is the Former Vice-Chancellor of Acharya Nagarjuna University and In-charge of Krishna & Vikrama Simhapuri Universities, Andhra Pradesh and basically Professor in the Department of Commerce and Business Administration, Acharya Nagarjuna University. He received his M. Com. from Nagarjuna University and secured 1st Rank. Then started his career as Research Scholar in 1977 and secured Ph.D. in 1982. His research interests are focused on Public Enterprises, Advanced Banking and Finance and Academic Administration. Guided 15 Ph.D.s and 15 M. Phil.s so far and a few more are working for their Research Degrees.. He has 40 years of teaching experience in the field of Commerce & Management Studies and attempted many innovations in Teaching. Presently he is the Director of SEA Group of Institutions, K.R. Puram, and Bangalore.