“Changing Face Of Professional Education In India With Institute – Industry Partnership”
“Changing Face of Professional Education in India With Institute – Industry Partnership”
Prof. Giri Y.L.
Jayawantrao Sawant College of Engg.
Hadapsar, Pune.
E-mail:-giri.yog@gmail.com
Abstract
Education in India has a very long history. As knowledge is a very important source of India's competitiveness. But India's ability to tap and nurture the competitiveness would depend on how well education is institutionalized. Education has become India's “super infrastructure''. When the whole world was deep asleep in darkness of ignorance Indians were busy discovering new things. Even today India has largest number of graduates in the world. In the nearly 50 years since independence, India has built a university education system which is second in size only to that of the U.S., with 200 universities and more than 6,300 colleges. There are large numbers of professional courses at the undergraduate level. The education system in the country saw a revolution with the emergence of a whole new class of education providers, including private institutes, distance education providers, self-financing courses in public institutions, foreign education providers etc. Student may opt for any of it depending upon their interest and condition of eligibility.
To succeed in life or business, you need the right tools. And one of the most important tools is education and training. It provides the strongest link between income aspirations and the realization of income goals.
Today India's youth, parents, employers and the self-employed have acquired a keener appreciation of the association between training and skills, income-generating economic opportunities, and formal professional education and careers than in the past.
Prof. Drucker has argued that knowledge travels more effortlessly than money. The knowledge economy relies heavily on knowledge workers. It includes...
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