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Sustainable Development in Higher Education Sector: A Gateway to Secure the Future


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1 Department of Public Administration, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India
     

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Education for sustainable development (ESD) is an important concept. It encourages people to get on par with the issues related to planetary sustainability, taking effective decision and acting on them. It also provides better vision for rational solutions, empower people and helps in critical and systematic thinking. The present paper studies the role of sustainable development process in higher education arena, growth and performance of higher education institutions and also examines the ESD based learning used for faculty members. The results indicate that higher education sector has witnessed a tremendous expansion in recent years. Attempts have also been made to suggest some measures to enhance the use of sustainable development mechanism in higher education sector in India.

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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Higher Education Sector, Institutions, India.
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Authors

Meenakshi Bansal
Department of Public Administration, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

Abstract


Education for sustainable development (ESD) is an important concept. It encourages people to get on par with the issues related to planetary sustainability, taking effective decision and acting on them. It also provides better vision for rational solutions, empower people and helps in critical and systematic thinking. The present paper studies the role of sustainable development process in higher education arena, growth and performance of higher education institutions and also examines the ESD based learning used for faculty members. The results indicate that higher education sector has witnessed a tremendous expansion in recent years. Attempts have also been made to suggest some measures to enhance the use of sustainable development mechanism in higher education sector in India.

Keywords


Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Higher Education Sector, Institutions, India.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15410/aijm%2F2015%2Fv4i2%2F67728