Although there have been challenges to higher education in the past, these most recent calls for reform may provoke a fundamental change in higher education. This change may not occur as a direct response to calls for greater transparency and accountability, but rather because of the opportunity to reflect on the purpose of higher education, the role of colleges and universities in the new millenn
ium, and emerging scientific research on how people learn. These disparate literatures have not been tied together in a way that would examine the impact of fundamental change from the policy level to the institutional level and to the everyday lives of college and university administrators, faculty and students. Now the time has come to create a second wave of institution building and of excellence in the fields of education, research and capability building. We need higher educated people who are skilled and who can drive our economy forward. When India can provide skilled people to the outside world then we can transfer our country from a developing nation to a developed nation very easily and quickly. Management Research & Development Association - MRDA is an initiative to achieve the above. It's a registered civil society organization working to strengthen over all trade and institutional frameworks within the South Asia region. The organization closely works with various governmental and non-governmental Organizations to achieve its aims and objectives. At MRDA we believe that a strong civil society is essential to addressing the root causes of today's most pressing of societal challenges. Over the past 25 years there has been a paradigm shift in terms of the understanding and international recognition of civil society's role. We recognize the complexity of the inter-relation that exists between humanitarian, development and environmental challenges compounding into an ever increasingly complex interactional environment. We constantly follow the changes in regulatory affairs, accountability, fundraising, the increasing emergence of private sector interventions and many other areas requiring rapid adaptation of practices. We believe that real sustainable change happens on an organizational level. It should be led locally and driven by building effective long-term synergies. Humanitarian and development work needs to be more efficiently managed: talent resources developed, budgets justified, aid rightfully distributed, projects effectively managed, field research advocated, initiatives better documented and communication channels formed in order for our societies to really become empowered. We believe that knowledge and skills should be decentralized and inclusive. The flagship activities of MRDA and its different houses, like - R & D House (responsible for research & development), Training House (responsible for conducting training programs to strengthen institutional framework), Eyes House (responsible for information dissemination via a number of publications), Accreditation House (responsible for the scrutiny of education system in India), Education Plus House (responsible for strengthening present education system) & Event House (responsible for organizing various activities for Indian trade) are visible at both national and international level.
