Higher Education and Social Change in India! Higher education in India stands as an immobile colossus-insensitive to the changing contexts of contemporary life, unresponsive to the challenges of today and tomorrow, and absorbed so completely in trying to preserve its structural form that it does not have the time to consider its own larger purposes. […]
Higher Education and Social Change in India | Sociology
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Universities in India | Sociology
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Universities in India are creatures of the Acts of Parliament/State Legislatures. There are no non-statutory universities; none can be recognised according to the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956. There are, however, some non-statutory institutions like the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay or the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune which are recognised as ‘deemed to […]
Universities and the Government: Relationship | India | Sociology
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In India the relationship between governments and universities is conditioned by three major factors viz.: (i) That universities are established by statutes of the Central or State Legislatures or, in some cases are recognized as ‘deemed to be universities’ under provisions of the University Grants Commission Act; (ii) That universities depend to the extent of […]