A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 years is urgently needed. Such a Paper should take stock of the present and required availability of access taking into consideration the size of the age-cohort population...

The IIME Core Committee has developed the concept of 'Global Minimum Essential Requirements' (GMER) and defined a set of global minimum learning outcomes, which students of the medical schools must demonstrate at the point of graduation. The 'Essentials' are grouped under seven broad educational...

The objective of foundation course is to sensitize the learners with the essential knowledge and skills which will lay a sound foundation for his\her pursuit of learning across the subjects throughout the M.B.B.S. Course and later in pursing his/her career in medicine.

Social Sectors

The paper investigates the role of economic factors in the enrolment decision at the higher education level in India. The study concludes that the rate of participation of women is in a disadvantaged position in the post-reform period. Women’s education has started to loose its importance...

The present paper examines the cultural orientation of foreign students who secured admission in Osmania University (Andhra Pradesh, India) in terms of time orientation and event orientation, dichotomist and holistic thinking, crisis and non-crisis orientation, task and person orientation,...

The UGC has contributed in a number of ways in developing policies and to devise the schemes and to transform them into an action plan for implementation. The UGC also took several new initiatives for reforming higher education, many of the which were of a fundamental nature.