Impact of Globalization on Higher Education in North-East Region

Globalization refers to the simplification of the procedures of commerce, foreign investments, Higher education and trade in service etc. The emphasis of Higher Education depends upon the number of universities currently presents in India and the quality of education they provide. North East India (officially called North Eastern Region, NER) is the eastern most region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. The term globalization was introduced by Adam Smith especially for the field of economy in 1776. Higher education is effected by global and it is a burning situation. Before independence of India there were only 16 colleges in North-eastern region, majority of them were situated at the Assam. There are twenty three number of Universities Grant Commission under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. In the case of North East Region, the central Government set up separate ministry for NER, and reserved funds for general development through various councils.