International Journal of Peace, Education and Development Citation: IJPED: 4(1): 1-7 June 2016 ©2016 Renu Publishers. All rights reserved DOI: 10.5958/2454-9525.2016.00001.9 RUNU PUBLISHERS Reforms and Innovations in Higher Education Peeyush Kamal Department TT&NFE (IASE), Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India -110025 Email: piyu170980@gmail.com Abstract With the explosive growth of knowledge in the past century and with the development of handy tools of information and communication technologies (ICT) as well as of other scientifc innovations, competition has become a hallmark of growth all over the world. Reforms and innovations in higher education has been become the need of the hour. Globalization presents many important opportunities for higher education, but also poses serious problems and raises questions about how best to serve the common good. The Indian government has set a goal of increasing the enrollment ratio among Indians of college age (gross enrollment ratio, or GER) to 30 percent by 2020, from a current rate of just under 20 percent. In doing so, the government hopes to bring the nation’s GER broadly into line with the projected 2020 global average. It also recognizes that quality standards need to be improved in tandem with access if the GER goals are to have a measurable impact on the broader Indian economy. This essay provides an outline of the major challenges facing universities throughout the world, This then give context to a discussion on current policy reforms and the future of higher education. Keywords: Information and communication technologies, hallmark, GER The Indian higher education system has grown in an incredible way, particularly afer independence, it become one of the largest system in the world. However, the system has many issues of concern at present. These issues are important and now engaged in the use of higher education as a powerful tool to build a knowledge-based information society of the 21 st Century. The government GER goals were laid out in the 11 th five-year plan (2007- 2012) at the beginning of which India’s GER was significantly lower than today’s 20 percent, at just 12.3 percent. So, clearly, signifcant progress has been made with regards to increasing access to higher studies. Noting this success, the 12 th five- year plan (2012-2017) goes on to discuss the need to continue improving access to higher education, while also stressing the importance of doing it in conjunction with improvements in quality and social equity. By recognizing the basic fact that the Universities have to perform multiple roles, like creating new knowledge, acquiring new capabilities and producing an intelligent human resource pool, through challenging teaching, research and extension activities so as to balance both the need and the demand, the higher education system With the explosive growth of knowledge in the past century and with the development of handy tools of information and communication technologies (ICT) as well as of other scientific innovations, competition has become a hallmark of growth all over the world. So that Innovations become the need of the hour. Reforms and innovations are two buzz words ofen heard these days in almost all areas seeking development, nonetheless, higher