Trends in Higher Education - Hardcover

Higher education is a complex package of issues which never seems to leave the limelight. The primary wedged issues are tuition cost, access, accountability, financial aid, government funding, sports and their place within higher education, academic results, societal gains as a whole in terms of international competition, and continuing education. This book examines new directions in this ever-changing, vital and controversial field which has a profound effect on society. It also examines the issues in higher education that are of contemporary and practical concern to leader, administrators, teachers, researchers and students. The most comprehensive reference tool available in the field of higher education., About The Author:- Prof. Ramesh Chandra, was born in a family of freedom fighters on July 1st. 1957 in village Bijwara, District Meerut of Uttar Pradesh. He started his research career at University of Delhi and then went to the New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, as well as at the School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook as a faculty member and then went to Harvard University Medical School-Massachusetts General Hospital joined at MIT, Cambridge, USA. On his return to India he joined the faculty at the University of Delhi, where he is currently a Professor of Chemistry and Director of Dr. BR Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research: in addition to his present assignment as Vice-Chancellor of Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (UP). He was appointed Professor (Research Scientist) by the UGC at the young age of 35 years. He is a creator, performer and builder of institutions of higher learning. He has established Dr. BR Ambedkar Centre of Biomedical Research at University of Delhi, when he was just 33 years old and became its Founder Director. He was appointed as youngest Vice-Chancellor of Bundelkhand University on March 24th, 1999 at the age of 41 years. He has metamorphosed it into a Center of Excellence by creating 36 instit