Information And Communication Technology Vis-A-Vis Quality Enhancement In Higher Education

Abstract

India has had a long tradition of inquiry and articulation of concepts of universe, self, role of state, economy, social order and other related matters. The methodologies adopted were subjective and objective and included observation, conceptualization, verification, articulation and teaching. As a result, India had gone far ahead of other countries in science – especially in mathematics, astronomy and chemistry, metallurgy and physics before the advent of modern era. However, despite such an impressive growth of higher education over the past seventy years in Quantitative terms, its growth in qualitative terms has been an area of serious concern. The most appalling issue in this respect is that the very concept of QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION has perhaps not been appropriately addressed. An attempt has been made in this paper to identify some prominent parameters of Quality in higher education. Next to it, we also propose to delineate the role of modern ICT in enhancing the Quality of higher education in the light of the identified parameters of quality.