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HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

CONSTITUTION OF COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS

PRE-INDEPENDENT INDIAPOST INDEPENDENT INDIA

EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PRE-INDEPENDENCE ERA

THE CHARTER ACT-1813

• Charles Grant• Rs.1,00,000 budget• Rs.1,00,000 budget• Dispute between orientalists and

occidentalists

ELPHINSTONE REPORT – 1823

Books in local languages Appointment of District Examination

officers,officers,school supervisors Training to teachers

MACAULAY’S MINUTES – 1835

• Downward filtration theory• A single shelf of a good European

library was worth the whole native library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.

WOOD’S DESPATCH – 1854

• Establishment of three universities on the models of London university.

• Madras, Calcutta & Calcutta.• Madras, Calcutta & Calcutta.• Establishment of Public instruction

Department• Grant-in -aid

HUNTER COMMISSION-1882-83

• PRIMARY EDUCATION IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE Govt.

• Universities have to manage the • Universities have to manage the colleges affiliated to them.

• Necessary amount will be given by the Govt. to the universities.

CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY COMMISSION - 1917

• Popularly called as saddler commission

• Separation of intermediate classes from the Degree collegesfrom the Degree colleges

• Establishment of separate boards for secondary and intermediate

• Special selection committee for selection of university teachers

HARTOG COMMITTEE -1929

• WASTAGE AND STAGNATION AT PRIMARY LEVEL – A BIG CONCERN

• QULAITY AND STANDARDS AT THE • QULAITY AND STANDARDS AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL IS TO BE IMPROVED.

THE ABBOT-WOOD REPORT -1937

• ENGLISH SHOULD BE THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION AT HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL.

• ESTABLISHMENT OF POLYTENCHNIC • ESTABLISHMENT OF POLYTENCHNIC COLLEGES, CETRAL TECHNICAL BOARD

• ESTABLISHMENT OF VOCATIONAL TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES

BASIC EDUCATION – 1937

• TEACHING THROUGH MOTHER TONGUE AT PRIMARY LEVELTONGUE AT PRIMARY LEVEL

• EARNING WHILE LEARNING

SARGENT REPORT – 1944

• RECOMMENDED FOR THE ESTABLISHEMNT OF U.G.C

• THREE YEAR DEGREE COURSE• TWO YEAR INTERMEDIATE COURSE• TWO YEAR INTERMEDIATE COURSE• ESTABLISHEMENT OF JUNIOR AND

SENIOR TECHNICAL INSTITUTES

COMMITTEES IN THE POST-INDEPENDENT ERA

• RADHAKRISHNAN COMMISSION-1948-49

• SECONDARY EDUCATION COMMISSION – 1952COMMISSION – 1952

• INDIAN EDUCATION COMMISSION –1964

RADHAKRISHNAN COMMISSION-1948-49

• The first committee after the independence• The weakest link between secondary

education and higher education is intermediateintermediate

• Recommended for the establishment of UGC.• Teacher at the university level must be

categorized as professors, Readers and lecturers

• Need for the establishment of rural universities

SECONDARY EDUCATION COMMISSION – 1952

• Popularly called as Mudaliar Commission• Thee year secondary and four year higher

education stageseducation stages• Establishment of multipurpose schools• Establishment of central Board of Secondary

Education, Textbook committees• Abolition of two-year intermediate course

INDIAN EDUCATION COMMISSION –1964

• Popularly called as Kothari Commission• The Bible of Education• Increase of productivity, fostering

modernization and development of social, modernization and development of social, moral and spiritual values

• Three year Degree course and Four year Honours Degree course

• Establishment of Indian Education Service

NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION - 1968

• UNIVERSAL FREE COMPULSORY PRIMARY EDUCATION

• LOCAL LANGUAGE AS MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTIONINSTRUCTION

• DISTANCE EDUCATION• IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY AT

HIGHER EDUCATION

ESWARI BHAI PATEL COMMITTEE-1977

• SUPW• DEVELOPMENT OF NON-FORMAL

EDUCATION

M.ADISHESHAYYA COMMITTEE-1977

• COURSES RECOMMENDED TO CATER TO THE NEEDS OF THE RURAL PEOPLE

• AGRICULTURE, HEALTH AND • AGRICULTURE, HEALTH AND PARAMEDICAL COURSES

NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION - 1986

• 10+2+3 PATTERN WITH COMMON CORE SYLLABUS

• INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION FOR BETTER FUTUREBETTER FUTURE

• DE-LINKING DEGREES FROM JOBS• FORSTERING NATIONAL

INTEGRATION, INTENATIONAL PEACE AND THE FEELING OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD.

• PROTECTION OF OUR ENVIRONMENT• STANDARDS AT THE HIGHER

EDUCATION ARE TO BE IMPROVED• REORGANIZATION OF CURRICULA • REORGANIZATION OF CURRICULA

AND PEDAGOGY• CONTINUOUS COMPREHENSIVE

EVALUATION• RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY

LEVEL

ACHARYA RAMAMURTY COMMITTEE - 1990

• COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY

• PRIMARY EDUCATION OUGHT TO BE A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTA FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT

• THE LINK BETWEEN DEGREES AND JOBS ARE TO BE BROKEN

• CCE

Prof. YASHPAL COMMITTEE

• THE BURDEN OF SCHOOL BAGS SHOULD BE ABOLISHED AT THE PRIMARY LEVEL

• HOME WORKS AND ASSIGNMENTS • HOME WORKS AND ASSIGNMENTS SHOULD BE GIVEN WITH UTMOST CARE.

• NEED FOR EXISTENCE OF CBSE AND STATE BOARDS

PROF.GNANAM COMMITTEE-1993

• Universities must come center stage and the modes of functioning should b e reviewed and redefined accordingly.

• The managerial pattern of the univesity • The managerial pattern of the univesity must have an inbuilt flexibility

• Universities autonomy should be considered as essential pre-requisite for ensuring academic excellence

• The university departments may be grouped into a number of fully autonoumous institutes through suitable groupings of the existing suitable groupings of the existing faculties.

• Accountability should be maintained at all levels

THE COMMITTEE TO ADVISE ON RENOVATION AND REJEVENATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

• THERE IS A DIRE NEED TO RESTRUCTURE THE UNIVERSITIES

• MUSHROOMING GROWTH OF DEEMED UNIVERSITIES, ENGINEERING AND UNIVERSITIES, ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS IS TO BE ARRESTED

• UNIVERSITIES SHOULD BECOME SELF REGULATING PARTERNS IN MANAGING THE OVERALL EDUCATION SYSTEM

• TOO MUCH INSPECTION AND INTERFERENCE BY THE REGULATING AND MONITORING APEX BODIES AND STATE & CENTRAL GOVENMENTS STATE & CENTRAL GOVENMENTS SHOULD BE REDUCED.

• NEED FOR EVOLUTION OF ‘NATIONAL COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH’

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