Online Lecture-Sessions at HRDC, GJUS&T, Hisar on Higher Education in India and its Ecosystem on 21st September 2020 by Prof. Karam Pal Narwal , Director ,Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambeshwar University of Science&Technology, Hisar in Ist Technical Session

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Presentation By
PROF. KARAM PAL NARWAL
Haryana School Of Business
Guru Jambheshwar University of Science
and Technology, Hisar-125001(Haryana)
(Accredited ‘A’ Grade with the CGPA of 3.28 by NAAC)

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Objective: To provide a comprehensive overview of Indian Higher
education system.
Expected Learning Outcomes: The participants will be able to:
 Capture the trends & practices in higher education across the
globe;
 Understand the problems in Indian higher education system as
well as opportunities in addressing these problems challenges;
 Understand the history of development of higher education and
evaluate the contribution of respective universities in its
development; and
 Appreciate the role of faculty members in the University
structure.

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FOCUS AREAS/THEMES
1. Evolution of the Higher Education sector of India
2. History of one's own University college institute
3. National and Global trends in Higher education
4. Current challenges and opportunities in Indian higher education
implications for the everyday classroom
5. University college as an institution structure and functions
6. Ecosystem around the University college -MHRD, State
Departments of Higher Education,
7. UGC, NAAC, NIRF, CEC, INFLIBNET, various regulatory bodies -
implications of their role
8. Recognition under 2-F and 12-B of UGC Act

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FOCUS AREAS/THEMES
9. Schemes under UGC, ICSSR, ICHR, DBT and any other funding
agencies including NGOS that has relevance to higher
education
10. Understanding Roles and responsibilities of faculty in the
University Structures Roles & responsibilities - teaching,
research, and support to local community
11. Addressing problems of the students and constructive
approach towards teaching and support for students learning
12. Code of conduct, professional ethics, professional relationship
and network
13. The University Act, statutes, Ordinances and its role and
importance in governance
14. Institutional planning and development

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INTRODUCTION
1. India's higher education system is the world's third-
largest in terms of students, next to China and the
United States.
2. India's Higher Education sector has witnessed a
tremendous increase in the number of
Universities/University level Institutions & Colleges since
independence.
3. In the prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World
University Rankings 2020, only three Indian Universities-
IIT-Bombay, IIT-Delhi and IISc (Bangalore)- have been
included in the top 200 institutes.

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Five Key Issues in India’s Higher Education
1. Access: The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of India in higher education is only
25.2% which is quite low as compared to the developed and other major
developing countries.
2. Equity: There is no equity in GER among different sections of society. GER for
males (26.3%), females (25.4%), SC (21.8%) and ST (15.9%).
3. Affordability: Higher Education in India is yet to reach to every aspirant but due
to high fee structure by private sector, the affordability issue is gaining equal
importance.
4. Quality: Higher Education in India is plagued with rot learning, lack of
employability and skill development due to the low quality of education.
5. Accountability: Higher Education in India yet to fix accountability centres at
various stakeholders and it has to go many miles in this connection.

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Recent Initiatives Taken by the Government
1. Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP)
2. Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE)
3. UGC’s Learning Outcome-based Curriculum Framework (LOCF)
4. Graded Autonomy to Universities & Colleges
5. Global Initiative for Academics Network (GIAN)
6. All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE)
7. National Institutional Ranking Framework
8. Regulatory and governance reforms through NEP-2020.
9. Creating ‘world-class universities’
10. Increased focus on vocational and profession led education
11. Performance-linked funding and incentives
12. Distance and online education

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National Education Policy 2020
KEY STRENGTHS
1. Focus on restructuring pre-school education, vocational education
and online education may be the game changer idea in the policy.
2. Focus on creation of skilled human resources, with global vision
and local values is great idea in the policy.
3. Focus on three languages (local, regional and global languages)
and their qualitative proficiencies for creating global citizens is
great idea in the policy.
4. Focus on the government, private and foreign institutions to
provide a strong base to the national education system is again
wonderful idea in the policy.
5. Focus on more than half of population to access higher education
by 2030 and cover hundred percent population to school
education is game changer idea in new policy.

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KEY WEAKNESSES
1. Lack of required action-plan for higher investment
commitment in educational infrastructure (both the human
and non-human infrastructure) leading to world-class
schools, colleges and universities in India.
2. Focus on very heavy dependence on government funding in
education sector may become a weakness.
3. Fear of an ideological or political interference in the
implementation process may prove harmful for the longer
term continuation of the policy.
4. Lack of global orientation in designing programmes,
courses, curriculum and pedagogical issues may be another
concern.
5. Inadequate focus on proposed collaboration among
professional, industrial and academic organizations may be
point of concern.

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KEY OPPORTUNITIES
1. Focus on inflow of foreign students resulting in huge
foreign revenues in coming years.
2. Focus on increased global competition especially in
higher education may result in improved efficiency and
quality in coming time.
3. Focus on FDI in education may be helping the students
to get education relatively at cheaper cost.
4. Focus on higher role of academic-world may result in
sharing of innovative ideas and thoughts in its
implementation process.
5. Focus on reversing the trend in brain-drain and make it
drain-brain in favour of India.

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KEY THREATS
1. Private institutions may not significantly contribute in
encouraging the socio-economic and equal-access
responsibilities.
2. Focus on stiff marketing techniques by schools, colleges and
universities may promote an unethical competition in
future.
3. Academic institution's expectations regarding government
financial commitments may prove to be quite challenging.
4. High growth in number of schools, colleges and universities
may focus on profit making rather than quality education
especially in the absence of tight regulations.
5. Focus on autonomous colleges may create confusion and
the donation in admission process may raise concern.

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Summing-up : In India, so far three education policies have been
announced by the Federal Governments for the whole country. The
1st policy was announced in 1968, the 2nd was announced in 1986
and the 3rd education policy has been announced in 2020. Inshallah,
all these policy documents attempted to present the real picture of
education scenario in the country and also attempted to propose an
outstanding course of action to improve the same and make it
globally competitive. Although, with the advent of ICT, its best
possible usage in academics and its proper training to existing
manpower in education sector especially the teachers make this
National Education Policy 2020 more relevant to present needs but
higher financial commitment from government and lessor role of
bureaucracy in its implementation process are two biggest challenges
before us. Let us think positive and wish the new policy all the best.
References : We have taken the statistics from Open Access Sources
and Government Sources, therefore, we acknowledge
each and everyone please.