Tag: Higher education

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

Now, A’duar too wants a varsity

Marking yet another instance of demand for a university, the Alipurduar district wing of the Trinamul Congress affiliated West Bengal College and University Professors’ Association on Monday uplifted their urge for a separate university in Alipurduar district. The organization pitched the demand on Monday in their third annual district conference which was held at the …

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February 27, 2018

Educational hub for higher studies

Japan has been growing above potential for several quarters, according to IMF first deputy managing director, David Lipton, at the recent Asian Financial Forum. The country is one of the leading nations in the fields of technology, machinery, scientific and medical research, and is quickly turning into an educational hub for international students. The expat …

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February 20, 2018

More women likely to drop out before Ph.D in hard sciences: Report

The latest trends in higher education reveal more instances of women dropping out from hard sciences — after completing their post-graduation (PG) and not pursuing a doctorate — than men, while more men did their doctorate even in courses where they were outnumbered by women at the PG level. According to the All India Survey …

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January 10, 2018

0.7% increase in higher education enrolment not enough for 2020 target

The number of students enrolling for higher education in India saw a marginal 0.7 per cent increase in 2016-17, an indication that the government’s ambitious target to enrol 30 per cent of youth between 18-23 by 2020 may be difficult to achieve. According to the latest All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) report released …

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January 6, 2018

Number of students enrolling for higher education up by 0.7%

The number of students enrolling for higher education in India saw a marginal 0.7 per cent increase in 2016-17, according to a government survey released on Friday. Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar released the survey here. It said the gross enrolment ratio (GER) in higher education had gone up 25.2 per cent in …

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January 5, 2018