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The book under review provides a very detailed and comprehensive account of the Indian higher education system, its predicaments and prospects. It makes a sincere attempt to grapple with the entire gamut of issues, problems and challenges that Indian higher education is confronted with and also outlines a roadmap for a better future... Data gathered and collated from various studies, national and international, have been used liberally. Relevant concepts and important pieces of information have been assigned due importance which will be of immense help to readers across professions and backgrounds.
(Contributions to Indian Sociology)By bringing out a comprehensive book Indian Higher Education, the author has filled a gap in literature on higher education....everyone who regards higher education as fundamental to nation building ought to read it.
(Current Science)Pawan Agarwal is serving as Adviser, Higher Education in the Planning Commission, where he has steered the formulation of the country’s Twelfth Plan for Higher Education. He has earlier worked as Director in the Ministry of HRD and Financial Advisor, University Grants Commission.
He has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar at Harvard University/Emory University, a visiting scholar and fellow at ICRIER, New Delhi and the Centre for the Study of Higher Education in University of Melbourne. He is the recipient of the Emerging Leaders Fellowship of the Australia India Institute for the year 2011–12 and Bloomberg-UTV Policymaker of the Year, 2012.
He has conducted studies for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Inter-American Development Bank, the South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutions, the Observatory for the Borderless Education, and the Indian Council for International Economic Research. He has published on a range of higher education issues in India and comparative perspective in the South Asian context.
He has previously authored a book with SAGE India, titled Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future (2009).
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