ISBN: 9789386682178 - rebuilding our universities: lessons from experiments at the university of allahabad (4 risultati)

Condizione: New. 494.

Condizione: New. 494.

Condizione: New. 494.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Each institution has its own history, geography, social contexts, opportunities, and constraints. Higher Education institutions like universities are no exception to it. There is a common thread that runs through them all; they train the youth, the citizens of tomorrow to shape their own future and reshape the future of their motherland and thus the future of the world. The purpose of this book is to create a new and brighter future for Allahabad University, the Alma mater of the author. The book shows the way to reshape the University into one of the top 20 universities of India in a decade or so. The ups and downs which Allahabad University has gone through since India won its Independence in 1947; the efforts made by the author for 36 months (18 January, 1984-17 January, 1987) to take it back on a fast track of development; and what happened to the University after it was taken over by the Central Government and renamed as Allahabad Central University in 2005, constitute the main thrusts of the book. The suggestions made to bring it back to the path of recovery and development, are relevant not only to this but other universities and institutions of higher education too.…