Challenges of Higher Education in India (original) (raw)

The vision of higher education in India is to realize the country's human resources potential to its fullest with equity and inclusion. The higher education sector, in recent decades, has witnessed a tremendous growth in many aspects such as its institutional capacity, enrollment, teacher student ratio, and etc. Besides this Higher education in India has developed rapidly and today we have different structure of higher education institutions as central universities, state universities, deemed universities and private universities. Complexity of the world and Indian society has presented many challenges before the higher education system. Over the past two decades, the education sector in India has undergone a substantial transformation. Recent advances in technology have provided access in technology has provided access to high quality educational resources and information on the internet. This article examines the role of open educational resources in addressing the challenges of higher education in India, which range from geographical disparities in access to education, to shortages of trained and qualified faculty. The authors examine and discuss several open educational resources initiatives that are currently advancing India's efforts to create strong institutional mechanisms to overcome the country's educational challenges through a national strategic framework designed to improve access to quality higher education. The author explores the challenges faced by the higher education system in India. We have challenges related to different aspects of higher education-Academic, Administrative, Faculty Development Infrastructural, Motivational and Examination & Evaluation, funding, regional imbalances, curriculum, vacant faculty positions, lack of infrastructure, rigid system of examination, outdated methods of teaching, lack of accountability, poor NAAC grades of public funded institutions, etc. are the main challenges before the system. System has to overcome these challenges to provide a sound system of higher education to channelize strength of the relatively young population of the nation. The quality of higher education has become a major concern today. Needs and expectations of society are changing very fast and the quality of higher education needs to be. Improvement of Indian higher education system is inevitable for national development and this is not possible without undertaking the above discussed challenges of the system.