Authors : Sarita C. Deshpande, Dilip B. Sawarkar2
Page Nos : 165-172
Description :
Starting from HartogCommittee (1929), Wastage and stagnation have been extensively
surveyed and studied in case of Primary education in India and also by others, world over.
However, in higher education these and other conditions creating wastage have to be
discussed deeply. Apart from wastage in terms of drop-outs and stagnation in terms of
repetition of academic year of a program or course, there are other aspects that indicate
wastage of human and /or non-human resources in higher education system. The reasons
for such wastage may be Social, Economic, Educational or others. Understanding wastages
other than stagnation and drop-outs and monitoring them to the minimal level based on
self-experiences have been thefocus of this article. This article discusses human and nonhuman
resource wastages at higher level of education separately and integrally. Based on
self-experiences, the authors also put forward their reflective thoughts in the form of some
suggestions or ways to reduce such wastages at higher level, especiallyat university level of
education.
Keywords: wastage, Human resources, non-human resources
