Excellence in Higher Education

“A society full of love, non violence, truth and justice; only in such society one can completely develop his/her potential and spiritual development” says Mahatma Gandhi. This envisaged vision to developing the individual’s potential and spiritual development, which is vital for universal and personal harmonious and self-fulfilled living, could become a reality only through education. When we say through education, it depends on the type of education and the quality of education imparted from primary to higher education. The mantra of winning over the neck-to-neck competitive world is nothing but to enhance the quality in the acquired knowledge, nurtured values and developed skills, and anyone who is of quality or who fulfills the pre-determined quality parameters is at the better half of winning the game.Higher Education, the much emphasized sector in these recent days, is at a compulsive and obligatory state of upgrading its quality to face the challenges due to the already-arrived concepts of LPG. The monopoly of Indian higher education that has been enjoyed in the yester years would be a mirage in the upcoming years and to survive and to thrive upon, all the higher education institutions of teaching-and-learning have to plough through and sow the seeds of quality that has to bloom and bear quality fruits.To do something positive over the fathomed cognitions and to move a step ahead in this benign direction, Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) has organized a relevant, timely, meaningful and value-added a two-day international conference on ‘Enhancing Excellence, Equity and Efficiency in Higher Education’ on 7th and 8th November 2014. The prime objective is to provide a platform for the educationists, teachers and research-scholars at different levels from all over the state, nation and the globe to interact, to exchange thoughts and deliberations and to strengthen the professional bond to working together for excellence, equity and efficiency in education.