Name: Gurpreet Singh Uppal
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Volume-16, Issue-1, (January-June)
Page Number: 554- 559
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21188457

No nation can attain sustained economic and social progress without the backing of an “informed human capital. It is pertinent for an emerging economy like India, which is endowed with the second highest human resource in world, to derive the demographic dividend of this potent resource. Primary and secondary educations are not sufficient for human capacity building. It is higher education which lends the knowledge to understand and implement innovative techniques for economic progress. Higher education acts as the sharpener which adds edge and insight to make the human resource globally competitive and efficient. This paper makes an attempt to look at the changing dynamics of higher education, focusing on the challenges to it in present times. The 21st century is marked by a paradigm shift in education that has resulted both in threats and opportunities. It has brought new challenges and an opportunity for higher education. The challenges ahead are multifaceted and multidimensional.