COMMERCIALISATION OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION: NEED FOR CAREFUL AND CONTROLLED INTERNATIONALISATION & PRIVATISATION IN INDIA

Education has always been a sacred subject in the ancient India. But, this phenomenon has undergone change in the recent times. The main reasons are: privatization and globalization in the education. Thus, there should be control and regulation on the privatization and globalization in the education sector in India. There must be clear national education … Read more

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Information retrieval, as the name implies, concerns the retrieving of relevant information from databases. It is basically concerned with facilitating the user’s access to large amounts of (predominantly textual) information. Definition “Process of searching within a document collection for a particular information need which is called a query”- Langville & Meyer “Information retrieval deals with the representation, … Read more

ENFOLD REALITIES: A DALIT PERSPECTIVE

‘Dalit’ is a word which is more powerful in India than ‘India.’ It has played a major role in social, political and economic life of India. Dalits have faced unexpected exclusion in all aspects of their life. Though, different policies and constitution in itself provide various safeguards to them in almost every dimension of life. … Read more

CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN EDUCATION: FOCUS ON CORRELATIONAL RESEARCH

In the field of education, neither the treatment nor the ability to manipulate the condition is conducive to an experiment. Thus researcher prefers to conduct correlational research to study the relationship between two or more variables or to predict an outcome. Correlational Research concerned with determining the extent of relationship existing between the variables. The … Read more

‘WORLD ENGLISHES’: THEORY AND PRAXIS

AN INVESTIGATIVE SURVEY INTO CONTEMPORARY DEBATES AND RESEARCHES ON ‘WORLD ENGLISHES’:  THEORY AND PRAXIS Abstract The present study aims to engage into the discussion of the dichotomic relationship of ‘English as a Lingua Franca’ and ‘World Englishes’. Further, it discusses the most important models in context to World Englishes; it could be observed that the … Read more

Yashpal Committee on Examination System in India

In 2009, MHRD set up a Committee on Higher Education (Yashpal Committee) with Pal as the chairman, for examining reform of higher education in India. In its report, the Committee laid emphasis on the idea of a university, and advocated a number of major structural changes. The major, well understood defect of the examination system is that it focuses … Read more

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