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Educational Management

Notes 5.3 SWOT Analysis at Higher Secondary Level of Education

Strengths
(1) Indians have become the richest and the most skilled ethnic community in abroad by the
virtue of the highest education and human resources.
(2) Higher education is highly subsidized and, thus it is accessible to the poorest of the poor.
(3) It is equity & accessibilities principle has enabled many of the economically poor toacquire
higher education.
(4) Higher education has proved as an instrument of social change.
Weaknesses

(1) No provision of academic audit in Universities and Colleges.
(2) Lack of quest for quality in majority of institutions.
(3) Academic heads in majority of Universities, Colleges at the faculty level are elected bymajority,
not selected on merit.Decision making in universities is highly centralized.Complicated office
procedures and administrative staff are not professionally trained.
(4) Students are not involved as partners in decision-making process.Multiple apex agencies
like UGC, AICTE, NAAC, NBA, etc. are often over lappingfunctions.Autonomy of universities
and institutions has not correspondingly increased theaccountability.Lack of equality of
educational opportunities.
(5) Uniform fee structure, irrespective of economic status and affordability of students.
(6) Multiple entrance tests for similar courses burdening students.No student assessment/
feedback.
(7) No campus recruitment as well as part time job likes foreign universities in higher education.
Opportunities
(1) The percentage of NET/SLET examination results of a University may be taken as the one of
the key parameters of performance of a University/Institution.
(2) Gains in the information technology are to be taken to advantage education sector. Flexibility
can be allowed for students in selections of curriculum.
(3) Removal of roadblocks in opening of educational institutions as done in the sectors of trade,
industry and commerce.Apex agencies like UGC, AICTE have to pursue the responsibility
of setting up andmonitoring the academic standards.
(4) Private Universities may be allowed to be set up and their functions must be monitoredand
facilitated by the govt. agencies.
(5) Interface to be created between university-society, university-local community anduniversity-
industry.

(6) Universities required to react at pace with the global changes in other sectors.Students are
needed to be treated as clients and the Universities have to work moretowards satisfaction
of the changing needs and ambition of the students.
Threats
(1) Professional education to a significant extent is commercialized despite theintervention of
the government.
(2) Majority of the students are studying traditional courses out of compulsion and lack of
alternative but without an interest to pursue them earnestly.

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