“Changing Face of Professional Education in India
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Changing Face of Professional Education in India With Institute Industry Partnership
Prof. Giri Y.L.
Jayawantrao Sawant College of Engg.
Hadapsar, Pune.
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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
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And this is precisely the reason why amongst various other fields of knowledge,
desire for acquiring management qualifications is growing, both amongst the fresh
graduates and working executives. During the past two decades, India has made
enormous strides in its economic and social development. But the greatest challenge
to India is, to convert its large human resource base to knowledge workers, equipped
with multiple skills that can harness and take advantage of this booming knowledge
economy.
Higher Education in India is one of the most developed in the entire world. There has
in fact been considerable improvement in the higher education scenario of India in
both quantitative and qualitative terms. In technical education, the IITs, and in
management, the IIMs have already marked their names among the top higher
educational institutes of the world. Moreover the Jawaharlal University and Delhi
University are also regarded as good higher educational institutes for doing
postgraduates courses and research in science, humanities and social sciences. As a
result, students from various parts of the world are coming today for higher
education in India.
After liberalization many multi national companies entered in India due to which the
demand for professionals increased. With establishment of many private institutions,
professional education now moved