ABSTRACT

system in general and to the higher education in particular by way of encouraging a The present paper analyses the development of higher education in India since independence and identify major issues and problems faced by it and understands the urgent need for necessary amendments and revision in it. The paper is based on secondary sources of data collection. The higher education in India, particularly in last two decades or so, has remarkably transmuted and developed in a remarkable manner to emerge as one of the largest system of its kind. Arguably, these developments in higher education may directly be linked with the several changes that have occurred in the global economy, which calls for more knowledge and skilled worker force, and workers with extensive understandings of new business methods all over the world. The emerging social processes in India have brought forth new opportunities and challenges to the educational new standard of social, economic, technological, cultural and political development and discourse.