ABSTRACT

Education is one of the most powerful factors responsible for the development of any country. With the expansion of knowledge at global level, higher education has emerged throughout the world to meet the ever-increasing need of trained manpower for mounting economies of the world. The developed countries have adopted a target of providing higher professional education on mass scale to meet the ever increasing demand of professional education to millions of people. Education is seen as a driving force in shaping the civil society and also the catalyst for extraordinary economic growth and generation of employment opportunities for millions of young people. Thus, education is recognized as one of the critical elements of the national development efforts and higher education, in particular, is of vital importance for the nation, as it is a powerful tool to build knowledge based society of the 21st century. This paper aims to identify the issues and challenges in the field of higher education in India.