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Kaur, Harpreet – Higher Education for the Future, 2021
Due to resource constraints in the Indian education sector, efficiency assessment of the higher education is more essential for the proper allocation and the effective utilization of financial and human resources. Moreover, much of the research in the higher education sector has mainly focused on the quality of education and ignored the role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation
Athreya, Aditi; Goddeeris, Idesbald – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
This article studies the relationship between the authorities of newly independent India and mission schools using the case of (and the perspective/sources from) the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Chotanagpur (then South Bihar, now Jharkhand). These relationships were marked by much tension in the late 1940s and early 1950s. An abundance of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
Hanaoka, Mimi – History of Education Quarterly, 2022
Syed Ross Masood (1889-1937), grandson of the Muslim modernist Syed Ahmad Khan and former principal of Osmania University, traveled in 1922 from India to Japan as Director of Public Instruction for Hyderabad to assess Japan's educational system. In Japan and Its Educational System, a report published in 1923, Masood concluded that education had…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Models, Western Civilization, Economic Development
Machahary, Sasiprova; Upadhyaya, Amar – Higher Education for the Future, 2022
The increasing nature of global knowledge has made higher education move to a closer relationship with the industries. Universities in India have been given paramount importance for the country's development; hence, recommendations were forwarded by various educational commissions and policies to focus on university-industry relations (UIR). The…
Descriptors: Universities, School Business Relationship, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
M. Christhu Doss – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Women missionaries who came to India with a superior Protestant religious imaginary were keen on critiquing Hindu cultural practices that created divergences and transfigurations. They blatantly proclaimed that the deep-rooted custom of women's "seclusion" was a stumbling block to education, evangelisation and modernisation. This study…
Descriptors: Females, Christianity, Feminism, Religious Cultural Groups
Penprase, Bryan – Higher Education Forum, 2021
The history of liberal arts both in Europe and Asia is presented, along with a description of the ways in which liberal arts can prepare students for a turbulent future, shaped by rapid change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Aspects of global liberal arts that arise from earlier traditions within Asia are highlighted, with examples of curricula and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Liberal Arts, Higher Education, 21st Century Skills
Khodaiji, Sharmin – History of Education Review, 2022
Purpose: By the mid-19th century the British colonial state introduced liberal education to India. Amongst various disciplines, political economy illustrates the concerns of the colonial state with the education of Indians, and its anxiety with quelling political discontentment. The emerging Indian nationalist intelligentsia also utilized ideas…
Descriptors: Educational History, Colonialism, Indians, Political Attitudes
Mitra, Sugata; Dangwal, Ritu – Prospects, 2022
The "hole-in-the-wall" experiments of 1999, as named by the popular media, started with an Internet-connected computer being embedded in a wall facing a slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi, India. Several studies showed that groups of children, when given access to the Internet, can learn by themselves. Children's academic marks improved, and…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Internet, Foreign Countries, Independent Study
Rao, Parimala V. – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2019
The colonial state always asserted itself as a harbinger of 'modernity' and emphasised its role in India as a 'civilising mission'. The 1811 Educational Minute of Governor General Minto, declared Hindus and Muslims of India as inherently corrupt and insisted on the British role as 'civilising'. Conventionally the terms 'modern' and 'civilising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Policy, Foreign Policy
Suman, Amit Kumar – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
The Calcutta "madrasa" was one of the many institutions which witnessed recurrent attempts at reform in Muslim societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the eleventh century, when "madrasas" first emerged as the principal institution of higher Islamic learning, it has undergone many changes, adapting in…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Indigenous Knowledge, Islam, Muslims
Jain, Sonali Bhandari; Choudhary, Surabhi; Philip, Joanna – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
After witnessing the unruly and disruptive behaviour amongst college students on trivial topics, a study was conducted to find the reason behind it. The study consisted of students discussing topics like politics, situational problems etc. and it was observed that students lacked the concept of perception. Studying this even further, it was found…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Change, Student Development
Sengupta, Anirban – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2019
In the last two decades, India has witnessed the establishment of a large number of private universities. While these institutions are spread across different parts of the country, one can observe certain locational patterns. Focused particularly on private universities legislated by state governments (as opposed to private deemed universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Location, Private Colleges, State Regulation
Parimala V. Rao – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
Thomas Munro, a Scottish highlander, came to the Madras Presidency in South India as a soldier in the army of the East India Company in 1780. He rose to the position of its governor 40 years later in 1820 and died in India in 1827. His rise was not through military campaigns but peaceful administrative policies. During his stay in India, he…
Descriptors: Indians, Colonialism, Military Personnel, Educational History
Debs, Mira – History of Education Quarterly, 2022
The long history of Montessori education in India dates to 1915, and it was expanded through Maria and Mario Montessori's work in India between 1939 to 1946 and 1947 to 1949. The article characterizes a century of Montessori education in India as a series of "adapted, competing, and contested framings" with key disputes over Montessori…
Descriptors: Educational History, Montessori Method, Foreign Countries, Self Determination
Shome, Samik; Gupta, Yuvika – Research in Education, 2020
The education sector significantly affects the economic, political and social development of any nation and is a key to enhance country's competitiveness in the global economy. Higher education is critical to India's aspirations of emerging as a major player in the global knowledge economy. This paper takes a comprehensive look at the various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty, Labor Market