Mushrooming Higher Education Institutions: Quality of Education and Employability-Juniper Publishers
Juniper Publishers-Social Sciences Opinion “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action” -Herbert Spencer. Education is vital to development, empowerment and strengthening of the country and its citizens. It is one of the most powerful weapons to fight the evils of widespread poverty and inequality and thereby ushering a path to sustained economic growth. The world is witnessing the rapid expansion and diversification of Higher Education sector owing to academic, political, and commercial developments associated with globalization, such as the rise of market forces in Higher education sector and the umpteen opportunities for the skilled professionals and graduates. The privatization of higher education has increased the enrollments in the Higher educational Institutions (HEI), thereby increasing the flux of the graduates in the labour market. But the irony is that not all graduates are employable. The data is evident that the 14 percent of the gradu...