We entered the new millennium with greater emphasis on higher education, especially professional education. The years gone by have witnessed dramatic changes in educational system. Now women are actively involved in higher education and more and more students are getting enrolled in universities. As a result there is mushrooming of institutes offering higher education in India.
Globalisation has revolutionised educational process across the globe. In modern India, education is becoming an internationally traded commodity and no longer a skill, attitude and values imparting system. Educational system is a knowledge industry under service sector with the entire globe as a market where every individual works for profit making. In this industry, students are customers, teachers are promoters and institutions are service providers.
In today’s India, educational process is no longer considered for building nation but a business venture for future profit making. Institutions/universities are donning international cap and are considering themselves part of global network. Few institutions are already having understanding with institutions, industries at national and international level for collaborative research programmes. Terms like internationalisation, globalisation of education are making rounds. Modernisation of education is essential but not at the expense of losing its basic essence.
Today, pharmacy education is mostly governed by bodies other than its own self. The institutions imparting pharmacy education are affiliated to the medical university or technical university whereas the standards and norms for running the institute are prescribed by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), the statutory body of the profession, derives satisfaction in being a silent spectator and as a member of other bodies governing the pharmacy profession, rather than amending the Pharmacy Act broaden the objectives and functioning of the council. The pharmacy degrees are awarded by faculties of science, technology or medicine rarely by the faculty of pharmacy.
Is this state of affair, due to our incompetence or have we become so used to others ratingus that we are not able to comprehend the possibility of an individual existence? Or is it simply that we do not want our other professional colleges to become a part of this developmental process?
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