Commerce and Managemt Education, Managerial Economics, Performing Art, Skill Employability HRD, ICT, Research Training performance appraisal ICT-enabled Business education.

This paper emphasizes that Business and Commerce are performing arts requiring inculcation of professional operative skills. The introduction of ICTs in the higher education has profound implications for the whole education process ranging from investment to use of technologies in dealing with key issues of access, equity, management, efficiency, pedagogy and quality. In this regard the paper addresses the opportunities and challenges posed by integration of ICTs in various aspects of higher education in the present scenario. The paper argues for addressing the issues through formulation of policies and strategies to accrue following potential future developments in ICTs and to integrate them in education sector to transform higher education. Higher education systems have grown exponentially in the last five decades to meet the demands of quality education for all. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become common place entities in all aspects of life. Across the past 10 years the use of ICT has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of endeavour within business and governance in India. In India, within education, ICT has begun to have a presence, but the impact has not been as extensive as in other fields. The use of ICT in education lends itself to more student-centred learning settings and often this creates some tensions for some teachers and students. But with the world moving rapidly into digital media and infor

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