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social science research institutions. Although there is better awareness and increased
emphasis on the need for research on higher education, courses or study programmes
on higher education are almost absent in India. Therefore, it can be argued that
higher education has not yet emerged as a separate field of study in India.
There are active proposals to establish strong foundations of teacher develop-
ment and pedagogical training in higher education. The efforts by the Ministry of
Human Resource Development to establish national resource centre and higher edu-
cation academy under the new scheme of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National
Mission focusing on teacher support and orientation on pedagogical aspects and
efforts to establish schools of education focusing on research in teaching-learning
and pedagogical aspects of higher education are reflections of the felt need for more
emphasis in research on teaching and learning in higher education. These are indi-
cations of possibilities of higher education evolving as a separate field of study in
India in the future.
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