Tuesday, September 1, 2015

New Books of Pawan Sikka "Education for All: Human Resource Development in India, National Policy and Planning for the Education Sector" and "Globalization and Education in India: Higher Education, Skill Development, Empowering India with New Strategies"

Education for All: Human Resource Development in India, National Policy and Planning for the Education Sector
by Pawan Sikka, Kausar Wizarat and Kiran Mehta; Uppal Publishing, New Delhi, 2012, ISBN: 9788176580717.
Book Summary:
Education is considered the most crucial investment in human resource development. The policy-planners in India have had appreciated the role of education towards the economic development. The development of education system in India was incorporated, as an integral component from the very first national five-year plan of India. Besides, National Policies on Education were enunciated in 1968 and in 1986 (modified later in 1992), by the Government of India for the development of educational system towards the generation of human resource-essentially required for attaining national development Recently, a Right to Education Act has been also enacted, by amending the Constitution of India, to provide education for all sections of the society. The system of education has a determining influence on the rate at which economic progress is achieved and the benefits which can be derived from it. There is no doubt that education in the future will be vastly different from what it is today. And, for any nation to grow and develop, Education for all its citizens is a must. The future of the nation lies with how well we prepare our next generation to face it. This book
discusses the national policy on education; planned approach to the development of education system in India, Right to Education Act, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, National Mission on Education through information and communication technology, Statistical profile of the educational sector in India, etc. This is a useful reference book for the education policy planners, administrators, academicians, research scholars, students, etc. from all over India and abroad. This is an important addition to the existing literature on the subject in libraries.
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Globalization and Education in India: Higher Education, Skill Development, Empowering India with New Strategies

by Pawan Sikka; Uppal Publishing, New Delhi, 2014, ISBN: 9788176580779.
Book Summary: Globalization has a multi-dimensional impact on the system of education which is an important investment in building human capital that is driver for technological innovations, and economic development. The globalization and its concomitant demands on the manpower require a different education. It has underlined the need for reforms in the educational system with particular reference to the IT digital technology giving productivity dimensions to the system of education-producing thereby the quality manpower for the domestic and the world market. Globalization is an opportunity to expand our educational services. This book discusses issues related to the challenges of globalization for higher education, right to free early education and vision for school education ICT, skill development ,etc. besides the UGC Roadmap, National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy-2013, National Skill Development Policy-2009, National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, ICT, Skill Development in India, besides a discussion on the wide variety of issues related to the theme, both theoretical and practical in dimensions w.r.t. India. It is a useful reference book for the educational policy planners, academicians, administrators, teacher-educators of educational and training institutes and is a must for the libraries as a useful reference book.
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