STRATEGIES TO FACE CHALLENGES IN FUTURE OF INDIAN EDUCATION

The technical education of India is not prepared to accept, face and overcome challenges of future such as preparing the graduates for accepting the challenges of world of work, becoming responsive to changing and dynamic needs of world of work, focusing on lifelong learning of managers and professionals, cutting down the cost of education, developing different types of competencies according to aspirations of the potential students, facing the competition with institutes operating in the country and outside country, sustaining the quality of graduates according to changing demands of the world of work, crossing the boundaries of educational programmes and entering in human resources growth, practice and continuing education, contributing for social development and the like. There are local as well as global challenges. Most of the technical institutes are operating in reactive mode without professional approach. They need to be governed and managed by professionals having experiences of recent education management models.