Higher Education Institutions in India and Its Management

Managing higher education institutions in India is just like a junction, how to show the path to the future nation builder of our country. There are very hue and cry situations/difficulties in present Indian higher education about what to do and what not to do. It becomes so sensitive that it creates conflict in inter and intra management of higher education institutions. In recent years there have been debates and controversies regarding management of higher education institutions so as to improve their efficiency. And this has attracted the attention of academics and researchers in the field of higher education. One cannot use as ingle parameter to identify the best way of managing an institution of higher learning effectively and efficiently. However researchers have identified a set of principles for the above mentioned purpose. We very often use the word “organization” and “institution” we must however, make distinction between the two. While an organization is both a system of consciously coordinated activities and a rational instrument engineered to do a job, an institution is a responsive, adaptive organism which is the natural product of social needs and pressures. An organization is an artificially created system which strives to maximise the attainment of objectives and of efficiency in management. The organization, in this sense, continues to be outside the culture of the society in which it functions. An institution is “infused with values” and it comes to symbolise the community’s aspirations.If we look into this definition of an institution there will be general consensus that any institution of higher learning, be it a college or university,has to play a very broad spectrum of societal role. Hence, before building up the argument on the managerial components of higher education institutions, we must not forget these fundamental aspects. In this paper a detail discussion has been made about the basic considerations of building and managing a higher education institution and also the challenges and strategies of its structural and process mechanisms. It has also focused on the criteria to develop a participative culture, through the mechanisms of decentralization, and managing the faculty and stress on the process of generating and managing resources along with the institution support system, and the process of self-renewal.