Globalization and Education in India: Higher Education, Skill Development, Empowering India with New Strategies

About the BookGlobalization has a multi-dimensional impact on the system of education which is an important investment in building human capital that is driver for technological innovations, and economic development. The globalization and its concomitant demands on the manpower require a different education. It has underlined the need for reforms in the educational system with particular reference to the IT digital technology giving productivity dimensions to the system of education-producing thereby the quality manpower for the domestic and the world market. Globalization is an opportunity to expand our educational services. This book, entitled “Globalization and Education in India: Higher Education, Skill Development, Empowering India with New Strategies” contains issues related to the challenges of globalization for higher education, right to free early education and vision for school education ICT, skill development ,etc. besides the UGC Roadmap, National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy-2013, National Skill Development Policy-2009, National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, ICT, Skill Development in India, besides a discussion on the wide variety of issues related to the theme, both theoretical and practical in dimensions w.r.t. India. It is a useful reference book for the educational policy planners, academicians, administrators, teacher-educators of educational and training institutes and is a must for the libraries as a useful reference book. About the Author Dr. Pawan Sikka (b.1944) received MSc, PhD and DSc Degrees in Physics, and held British Council fellowship, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, besides the award of scholarships for studying the new and frontier areas of Science and Technology, in Italy, Switzerland and Germany. He is a former Scientist G/ Adviser, Government of India, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi and has held various technical assignments during the three decades of his dynamic years 1974-2004. He has delivered special lectures on the management of science policy related issues, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a life-member of different scientific societies, namely, Materials Research Society of India, Semi-Conductor Society of India, Association of British Scholars, Oxford and Cambridge Society of India. His other book, entitled: Education for All, Human Resource Development in India, National Policy and Planning for the Education Sector, has been well received by the academic world. His technical contributions have appeared in journals of national and international repute. He is widely traveled in India and abroad in pursuit, as well as dissemination of knowledge.