Challenges in Indian Higher Education System

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Introduction
There is no doubt that the higher education has huge importance in the society. It has
been realized by almost everyone that higher education lead to a number of benefits such as
the financial security along with a prosperous career. The role of education in this 21st century
consists of improvement quality of life, the health and better opportunities in the society. This
paper will elaborate and provide an insightful analysis of the causes behind the lacks in the
educational upliftment of the country. It will be focused on finding out the weakness of the
Indian educational system at the international level. The challenges that the Indian
Universities are facing and not being able to compete at the global level will also be the
concerns of the paper. The failings at the implementation of appropriate measures in order to
improve higher education system at the Universities will be focused at. Moreover, in the
Indian education system, the Universities of India and others will be the key terms in the
entire paper.
The Research Question- The emerging research question of the study is that how top 10
Indian Universities can achieve the highest ranking at the global level?
Discussion of the Research Question- Education is the foundation of the society and lack of
education has always posed problem in the society and at the global level too. I believe that
research is always a premium way to satisfy the quest to find out the solution of the problem.
The aim of the research is to inform the action, prove a particular theory and contribute to the
development of knowledge in a particular field of study. There are in total 8-10 step for the
conduction of a successful research. The steps are such as identification of the topic, focusing
on the developed research question, particular theoretical framework, development of a
research methodology, delineation of the main variables, definition and measurement,
selection of a sample and collection of data, analysis and interpretation of the data, writing up

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and communication of the findings. I have also followed some of the peer –reviewed articles
in order to come up to the structure that has resulted in the effective research. Furthermore,
the articles have been chosen to present a literature review of the research. A literature review
is important as it gives a comprehensive overview of the topics related to the research
question. It provides the reader with an insight on which direction to go with in the research.
The gaps also have been identified in the research which needs to be bridged.
The world has so far realized the economic success of the states which are
determined directly by the education system of a country. It has the third largest educational
system in the world after United States and China. There are almost 1000 universities in the
entire country such as the central, state and the private universities. There are many top level
universities in India such as BHU and JNU (Banaras Hindu University and Jawaharlal Nehru
University) but survey has found that there is no such University of India which has ranked
under the top 200 global universities. This is the gap in which needs to be fulfilled in order
improvise the education system in India. This is the area that has attracted my attention to
research. My research paper focuses on the challenges the Universities are facing due to
which they are not being able to reach to the top level internationally.
The first article is titled as “Evaluation of educational performance of Indian states
using PROMETHEE-GIS approach” and written by Shankar Chakraborty, Puneet Kumar
Agarwal and Debapriyo Paul (2017). The authors have presented that Quality education is the
key to the success of a country. Taken for example, India aims at establishing a sustained
growth. The current scenario of the Indian education system is considerably weak and thus
efforts should be made for improving the present situation. The paper mainly compares the
educational performance quality across 28 Indian states for identifying which institutions
need more attention. In order to fulfil this objective, the authors have utilized a multi-criteria
decision-making framework. This framework has been used to enrich the evaluations along