Education is the largest single activity
in the world, involving over 1000 million students and 50 million teachers
at all levels, not counting millions of others in educational support
activities. But its importance stems not merely from its size but also
from its role as institutionalized knowledge - the principal repository,
producer, disseminator and transmission belt of all forms of knowledge.
The most significant feature of
education for mother earth protection in the 21st century is not so much
what the French call li explosion scolarie, but the knowledge
explosion, which has expanded the catchment areas of learning so fast that
it takes only a few years now for the state-of-the-art in any field to
become obsolete. Different modes and types of communicating for
advancement of knowledge are fast changing and becoming more than
sophisticated. In this technological era knowledge can easily be dispensed
technologically and electronically. Teachers and formal school structures
are becoming less important, and the conventional age limits on the
learning process are becoming blurred.
Viewing the urgent need for mutual and
technical cooperation among the Universities in India, exchange of
information, export and import of educational know-how and consultancy,
control on duplication of efforts and wastage in higher education,
vocationalisation of existing careers besides strengthening the financial
health of the existing Universities for implementing educational
programmes having social, cultural, technical, economic and positive
contents for the optimum development of our country, the
"Confederation of Indian Universities (CIU)" is being
established with the co-sponsorship of selected university level
institutions in India.
The official organ of CIU under the name
and style of "universityindia.edu" is being brought out both in
the print as well as in the web media for the dissemination of information
related to higher education.
