ave;-vis students and institutions, the role of higher education in the workforce development, the state of research in India, the regulatory environment for higher education etc are some of the important issues analyzed and discussed here.

Higher Education in India by Purba Das. Authorpress. Rs. 475/-.

This book has been designed as a manual which looks into the state of higher education in India, and gives readers a glimpse into the ways in which higher education can effectively prove to be a strong point of India's infrastructure. Das provides an insight into the ways in which higher education has been developed in India, the premier higher education institutes in the country, and the problems and issues within the system. It also incorporates critical insights from experts in the field.

Higher Education in India: Crisis in Management by V C Kulandai Swamy. Viva Books Private Limited. Rs. 595/-.

This volume brings together critical perspectives on and valuable insights into, several issues concerning tertiary education that have not been examined so closely and comprehensively. Prof. Swamy addresses some of the issues ranging from the macro management of the system to micro management of institutions. He argues in his wide-ranging reflections over a period of almost two decades that our higher education system is in need of far reaching changes.

Reconstruction of Higher Education in India by Kulandai Swamy V C. Rs. 300. Icfai University Press

In this book, Prof. Kulandai Swamy postulates that a system must undergo mini revolutions periodically; else it may have to face a major revolution. The author pleads for restructuring the higher education system in India. There is an urgent need to transfer higher education to university campuses and for simultaneously dispensing with the system that facilitates affiliations of institutes.

There are other books too, but most of them fail to take a comprehensive and objective view of India’s higher education. There is no analysis of how to dovetail education in the field of science and technology to the needs of our economy as a whole and industry in particular and how to upgrade standards of scientific research. Then there is complete silence regarding the quality of education in such fields as humanities, fine and performing arts, architecture, strategic studies, archeology etc. Our education system should be able to facilitate flowering of competencies in technological as well as non-technological fields? This can happen only if our academics do some honest work and come up with a road-map for all round development of the huge mass of student community – which is presently floundering in the darkness.

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