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Jasmit K., (2014). Journey of Higher in India ‘From Pre Globalisation to Globalised Era’ International Journal of Educational Planning and Administration ISSN 2249-3093 Volume. 4. NUMBER 1 (2014). pp. 1-6.

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Journey of Higher in India ‘From Pre Globalisation to Globalised Era’ The title of this article is relatively broad, well defined and very important to education. This article has been written in a formal language that is specific to the education field. However, this article from a quick scan fails to meet the common shared features and characteristics of scholarly articles published in academic journals no matter what the discipline is. The format of this paper is also totally unacceptable. A journal article commonly consists of an abstract, introduction, literature review, methods, results, discussion and conclusions. This paper lists none of the above mentioned elements of a journal article. Without these, it is impossible to evaluate the potential meaningfulness of this article. Within the article, there are powerful statements that the author has put in inverted comas without any citation. E.g. ‘the main aim of starting schools for the children’s...............’ There are other statements in the article that appear as paraphrased statements but the author did not acknowledge their sources too. To strengthen his article the author should have recognised the contribution of such authors by employing the author-date citation system. The author is dealing with a very important and broad topic in education. This would require the author to have read widely and extensively as far as pre-globalisation and the globalised era issues are concerned with in