Introduction: Competency-Based Medical Education has emerged as a transformative approach to medical education worldwide. It focuses on the overall development of trainee physicians to ensure effective and safe patient care. Objectives: To evaluate faculty members' perspectives on Competency-Based Medical Education and identify perceived…

Purpose: External pressures, like the pandemic, influence industry and academia. ICT can assist in creating service innovations and better responses to external pressures. When higher education institutes combine service innovations with an appropriate business model, they can better understand educational transformations and marketing and aim for…

This paper explores perceptions of responsibility for including attention to gender and inequality in higher education curricula and pedagogic approaches internationally, through insights from Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) funded interdisciplinary research across India, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Perspectives…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore perspectives of academicians in leadership positions in Indian business schools on the sustainability of management education institutions in India. Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 respondents including directors, deans and vice-chancellors of private…

In India's beleaguered higher-education system, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) stand apart. The seven institutions have turned out some of the world's finest engineers and computer scientists, eagerly recruited by top graduate schools in the United States. Many of the institutes' graduates have gone on to become the chief executives of…

Discusses minimum financial support required for an adequate adult education program. Sources of financing are suggested for wholly subsidized, partially-subsidized, self-financing and profit-making programs. (RB)

Highlights trends that have influenced the professional outlooks of faculty employed in engineering institutions in developing countries and draws policy implications for engineering educators, emphasizing the need for institutional level reforms in decision-making patterns moving from hierarchical toward collegial relationships. (JT)

Investigates the relationship between institutional affiliation and scholarly activities and outlooks for a sample of Indian engineering faculty. The research is based on a survey of Indian academics conducted in 1971-72. (Editor)

Reports a study of concepts of professionalism among secondary-school teachers in India and England. Suggests the meaning of "professionalism" in India may not necessarily involve the same notions of autonomy or power that it does in England. Proposes this is a residue of the Indian colonial experience. (DHP)

Reviews formal postgraduate-level library and information science programs offered by universities, documentation centers, and research institutions in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Highlights include historical background; admission requirements; length of program; curricula; faculty; course content; research; administrative…

Examined are the trends in enrollment in higher education in India over a period of 15 years (1961-1975). The decrease reported in enrollment in Indian universities is attributed to three factors: (1) with the introduction of the 10+2+3 system, the basis of calculations has undergone a change; (2) the unemployment among the educated has given rise…