Part memoir, part analysis, this is a polemical study of the state of higher
education in India. Drawing on his extensive experience as educator and academic
in India and abroad, Amrik Singh provides the reader with a much-needed critique
of policymaking in the area of higher education – its shortcomings, the reasons
for these flaws, as well as measures for improvement. He focuses on the
procedural and financial changes that are essential for improving standards so
India can be at par with the more progressive nations of the world, and also the
absolute necessity for teachers more than administrators to take a hand in the
framing of