• ISBN13: 9788126934553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: January 27, 2024
• Pages: 206
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 360 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Educational Policy & Reform / General

The book highlights the need for repurposing and revamping higher education to meet the challenges of the 21st century that have surfaced following digital revolution and pandemic situations like the Covid-19. It tries to provide the key insights for wholesome governance and leadership of universities through practical suggestions on academic, administrative, and fiscal reforms. It suggests the ways for implementation of New Education Policy-2020 and restructuring degree courses. It also explains how the regulatory and ranking bodies can play their roles in promoting quality education and research in universities. It pleads for disengagement of regulatory bodies from controlling universities and allowing them to build their own brands. The book provides wholesome insights into the key issues of governance and leadership, within the existing framework, through practical suggestions on academic, administrative, and fiscal reforms which also underscores the point that our Higher Educational Institutions need new, imaginative, sustainable governance architecture to become globally competitive, effectively implement NEP-2020, restructure academic offerings in real-time, and restore primacy of research and creative pursuits. It emphasizes the pivotal role of quality in higher education and elaborates on the role of regulatory and ranking bodies in promoting quality education and research. It strives to provide insights for remodeling the universities and urges for reorganization of governance processes, enlightened leadership role of vice chancellors, contextualizing the curriculums, promotion of germane research, recognizing the transformative value of the internet on education, roles of HRDCs, SHECs and NAAC, reflections on the future of higher educations and universities, and so on.

Srinivas K. Saidapur, M.Sc., Ph.D., is a former Vice Chancellor of Karnatak University (2006–2010) and Founder Director (2015–2017) of Karnataka State Higher Education Academy, Dharwad. He has been a Fellow of Population Council, Biomedical Division, New York, USA and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is a recipient of highly coveted Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Prof. M.R.N. Prasad Memorial Lecture Award of INSA, Prof. Har Swarup Memorial Lecture Award of INSA, and Sir M. Visvesvaraya Senior Scientist Award of Government of Karnataka for Lifetime Contribution to Science and Technology. He was invited by the Japanese Ministry of Science and Technology, as Visiting Scientist at National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru; Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi; World Academy of Science, Italy; National Academy of Sciences of India, Prayagraj; and Karnataka Science and Technology Academy, Bengaluru. He has also served as the Vice President of INSA (2012–2014). Under his Chairmanship a policy paper on “Revamping Science Education in Karnataka” was prepared in April 2021 for Karnataka Science and Technology Academy, GoK, Bengaluru. The author can be reached at saidapur@gmail.com.

• Opinions on the Book
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. Historical Perspectives on the Indian Universities: A Run-up
• 2. Leadership and Governance
• 3. Management of Fiscal Resources
• 4. Curriculum: Contextualizing the Content and Delivery
• 5. Promotion of Germane Research
• 6. Management of Constituent and Affiliated Colleges
• 7. Repurposing the Centres of Human Resource Development
• 8. Role of State Higher Education Councils
• 9. Assessment and Accreditation of Universities: Need for Game Changing Paradigms
• 10. Reflections on the Future of Higher Education and Universities
• Postscript
• Works Cited
• Notes
• Appendices