Impact of Infrastructure for Higher Education

Education is always a search for quality and excellence. It opens the horizon of the human mind full of prospects and possibilities, visions, and fulfilments. Today, the system as whole of higher education in India has grown. However, we fail to maintain quality along with growth. The quality of education depends upon the quality of teacher education. The age-old contents, methods, and teaching materials have made teacher education unattractive and delinked from its present objectives. Teacher education programmes should exhibit a positive approach in building up the knowledge base in fostering innovative, interactive transactions strategies, and in broadening continuous and comprehensive evaluation. All these add to build the profile of teachers’ confidence in the competitive world. They would exhibit a perfect blend of professionalism and value with enshrined personality, aiming for professional growth, and employability in a global prospective. Therefore, a sound programme of professional education of school and college teacher is essential for the qualitative improvement of education. Investment in teacher education can bring rich dividends, because the financial resources required are small when measured against the resulting improvement in the education of the millions of the boys and girls. The paper describes how the use of ICTs has facilitated access to higher education and teaching. In summary, ICTs do not merely reinforce the infrastructure of higher education but greatly increase our power to implement the academic ideal that knowledge is important. In summary, ICTs do not merely reinforce the infrastructure of higher education but greatly increase our power to implement the academic ideal that knowledge is important