Concept and Expansion of Higher Education in India

Education aims at creation of teaching and learning environments not only to produce more knowledgeable, skilled individuals but also to bring about positive changes in the attitudes and values of the learners. Higher education is of vital importance for the country, as it is a powerful tool to build knowledge-based society of the 21st Century it has formed a permanence basis for the progress of human beings and emphasized to make skilled leaders in different fields of the society. The main purpose of this paper is to study the expansion of higher education in India. In India, Higher Education had its roots in early time. It is the outcome of a long socio- historical process of evolution. From the early 5th and 7th century A.D. some educational monks have introduced higher education in India. Since independence higher education in our country has spread rapidly. This is because of the visionary planning of the leader’s, educationists and policy-makers of our country.