Tag: Higher education

Australia is pulling power as a strong higher education and research destination

The US was the preferred higher education destination but recent years have witnessed a strong rethink, with Australia rapidly emerging as a credible alternative

January 18, 2019

‘Must define regulation, autonomy’

Prof Jatin Bhatt, Vice-Chancellor of Ambedkar University, speaks on issues ranging from his expectations from the national education policy to whether a regulatory body for higher education is needed

January 5, 2019

Number of Indian students in United States continue to rise

Indians constituted the second largest community of international students, comprising 18 per cent of the total, with China topping the list with one-third of the total international students.

November 13, 2018

Popularity of overseas education

Opportunities for studying abroad have increased by leaps and bounds for their state-of-the-art infrastructure, good exposure and global recognition of degrees.

October 23, 2018

Need for quality assurance

The long-term survival of numerous educational institutions that have received accreditations in the last two decades depends on their ability to perform.

October 16, 2018

A crucial component

Imparting higher education among the youth helps bridge socio-economic gaps, which in the long run will gear up India's development.

September 4, 2018

Flawed Bill~I

We, the stakeholders of higher education in India, have grown up with the UGC Act, 1956 in so far as our academic and administrative matters are concerned. There is no denying that in the public interest, there is a case for amending the six-decades-old UGC Act and strengthening the entity so that it can effectively …

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August 14, 2018

Higher education: HP 2nd in enrolment of ST women

Ranked next to UK, Himachal Pradesh had witnessed a steady rise in GER since 2015.

August 2, 2018

It’s time we thought again about higher education

For a society that prides itself on the value it places on education, India’s higher education institutions have much catching up to do. There is not a single Indian university ranked in the top 250 of the Times 2018 ranking of the world’s top universities. Only two universities have been ranked in the top 500. …

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July 29, 2018

Access to higher education still a privilege in India: President Kovind

President Ram Nath Kovind today said that although India was the third-largest education system in the world, access to higher education was still a privilege in the country.

July 7, 2018

Remembering a great teacher

Higher education in India has become a topic of lost glory. One wonders where all those people have gone who left their mark on lives of young people. One such outstanding person was Mother Colmcille, an Australian Nun teaching English at Loreto College, Calcutta. It is people like her who made Loreto education what it …

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July 7, 2018

Learning as an Enterprise

Since the 1990s, there has been a massive expansion of India’s higher education sector. In less than 30 years, according to the UGC’s annual report of 2016-17, the number of students enrolled has been a staggering 29.43 million of which girls constitute about 49 per cent. The annual growth-rate in terms of enrolment is about …

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July 4, 2018

Gross enrolment ratio in higher education has gone up: Qamar

India has emerged as the largest system of higher education found anywhere in the world, including nearly 900 universities and over 40,000 colleges and additioal 12,000 stand alone institutions for higher studies, said Furqan Qamar, secretary general of the Association of Indian Universities. The achievement is significant as compared to the situation at the time …

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May 9, 2018

Paradigm shift in higher education

Degrees designed to make graduates ‘think’ are likelier to spill over into entrepreneurial innovations and inventions of the future.

March 27, 2018

Underemployment is a bigger problem in HP

Underemployment is a bigger challenge than unemployment in Himachal Pradesh, thanks to the myopic vision of successive state governments, who took pride in providing higher education facilities to youth sans matching jobs. As a psyche, the youth in HP is more inclined to public sector jobs within the state, which have shrunk over the years …

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March 19, 2018

Site visits for proposed A’duar university

A two-member team of the department of state Higher education, comprising the Vice-Chancellor of the Netaji Subhas Open University, Subha Shankar Sarkar, and the Special Secretary of the Department of Higher education, Shiladitya Basu Roy, on Friday visited probable sites for setting up a proposed university in Alipurduar district. As part of the survey, the …

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March 10, 2018

Govt appoints R Subrahmanyam as new Higher Education Secretary

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) appointed R Subrahmanyam as the new Secretary, Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development on Wednesday, 28 February. Anil Gopishankar Mukim has been appointed as the Secretary, Mines Department in the reshuffle. Subrahmanyam, a 1985-batch IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh cadre, will replace KK Sharma, who …

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March 1, 2018