Challenges to Higher Education and Role of Open University: Women Education & Empowerment Yadav Mrityunjay* Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education, Satish Public College of Education, Delhi Road, Haryana, 123302, India *Corresponding author: Mrityunjay Yadav, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education, Satish Public College of Education, Delhi Road, Haryana, 123302, India, E-mail: mrityunjay866@gmail.com
Online published on 1 May, 2018. Abstract Higher Education is a powerful tool for social, political and economic change of any country. In a country like India with its large population, human resource development should be assigned a key role in the development strategy which has five energizers such as Health and Nutrition, Environment, Employment, Political and Economic freedom and the most important is Education. It contributes largely to the quality of the people through the country's Economic development especially to the Empowerment of women & weaker section. The focus of this paper is on improving the quality of higher education system by knowing & overcoming the quality issues & challenges in front of Open University & Distance Learning institution to meet the demands of the society (Specially of Women & Weaker Section). Total quality management in higher education is a multidimensional concept. Quality of higher education & specially Open University & Distance educational institutions depends on the quality of academic staff, infrastructure, facilities & academic environment. Quality can be achieved by introducing, Monitoring or Evaluation process continuously. This paper attempts to study the challenges and quality issue in the way of imparting Higher Education to the Women through Open Universities & Distance Learning Programs. Top Keywords IOU (Indian Open University), IGNOU. Top |