Necessity of Internationalization of the Curriculum for Indian Universities

This paper discusses the need and changing wants associated with internationalization of the curriculum in the context of Indian universities. The demand for international curriculum is growing day by day. To cater these needs institutions of higher education have started to take initiatives in this direction. Besides, traditional providers of higher education and new knowledge providers from corporate houses have started developing innovative curriculum modules for delivery to hone the urgently required skills among the learners as per the demand of the global market. Our courses designed in the past used to be centrally focused on imparting information and upgrading the depth of knowledge, lacking in honing various skills of the learners. But in the changed circumstances it has been observed that the curriculum designed today in the similar fashion that of the past has lost its relevance, practicability and applicability. We are shaping human resources on large scale but have forgotten the qualitative requirement of the global society. We have to think and rethink again and again as to why our degrees have not been proving self-sufficient to quench the quality requirement of the society at large.