Global positioning of higher education

Abstract

Today, India is in a position where it can reap the demographic dividend with its young population characteristics. The major focus should be on developing the youth with necessary skill set to be able to reap the benefits of demographic dividend. The demographics suggests many countries will need a lot of workforce to run their organizations and institutions. In such a situation how should India move in the areas of training its youth through polytechnics, higher education institutions and prepare curriculum is a matter of concern. Critically we will have to examine how we prepare our youth to take over from this position. What should be the curriculum? Which areas will have to be emphasized? How we can train them in proper skill sets? How we can develop in them the confidence to work in the multicultural settings are some of the concerns that the authors would like to present in this paper.