Redeeming Higher Education is a collection of 15 essays written during the period 1972 to 1985. Four essays were published in the seventies and the rest were written in the eighties. These are grouped into four sections: 1. The Baby-sitting Syndrome; 2. Towards Restructuring; 3.On Teachers and Teaching; and 4. In conclusion. In his introduction Amrik Singh provides a connecting link between the various readings. Singh describes education in India mainly as ‘compensatory’. Here at the undergraduate level one studies what should have been taught at the higher secondary level. This is true for other levels of education as well. It is responsible for the bloated student population at the undergraduate level. To improve higher education, it is imperative that school education is improved. For this the author rightly lays stress on vocationalization at the + 2 stage. The standard of education at all levels and especially in colleges and universities is deteriorating over the years. One factor responsible for it is the large-scale expansion of education at the tertiary level without any provision for infrastructural facilities.
January 1986, volume 1, No 1&2