5 Big Trends of Education in 2012

The field of education is evolving every day and it is coming up with new trends to enhance the quality of education and student quality.

Many career alternatives, which were not regarded to be important earlier, are now among the sought after career options for the students. Though the demand for traditional courses such as engineering and medicine are still in the top, the demand for new educational programs are emerging fast in the country.

Foreign universities setting up their centers have emerged as a new trend in the field of education in the country after there was an approval by the Union Cabinet for the foreign universities bill in March 2010.

As India continues to be an important marketplace in the new global economy, Harvard Business School has announced a new program in its HBS India Research centre in Mumbai. In that program they have focused on entrepreneurship, strategic management, innovation and corporate accountability. In addition to new programs, it also includes Managing and Transforming Professional Service firms.

So, is the entry of foreign universities turning out to be a threat to Indian Universities?

Prof Mithileshwar Jha of the IIM-B has supported the government’s decision to permit foreign universities to set up their branches in India as he doesn’t think that it’s going to be a big threat to the Indian universities. He also told that the setting up of the foreign universities will make the State Universities to raise their standard of teaching by imparting need-based education.

Adoption of music class is now becoming more diverse by expanding their course offerings and majors to include music business, musical genres and technology. Many of the universities have started offering music courses to their students.

This emerging trend has not gone unnoticed as many of the business schools are now getting involved. Many of the universities are encouraging their students to meet their current goals of becoming an engineer or a doctor as their profession and at the same time they are encouraging and giving a platform their students to achieve their dream of becoming a musician or any other co- curricular activity.

Many of the universities are giving prominence to outdoor education in India. They are sending their sending their students for industrial visits to learn more practically on their specified subjects.

Students from the T John College, Bangalore, had visited the Hindustan Aeronautics as part of their Academic Curriculum and they had guest lectures and they had practical insights about Light Combat Aircraft Division. Like this out door education is turning out to be a new trend among the universities in the country.

Steve Jobs has laid a big impact on the students all around the world. He has laid such a big impact that many students are very excited in going to fields of science and technology and because of that there is a huge rush for those fields in the present times.

So, like this many of the universities are adopting more new trends in education which can change the system of education into a healthy way and encourage many of the students to aspire higher education in a new way.