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    Overview. Research in Higher Education is a journal that publishes empirical research on postsecondary education. Open to studies using a wide range of methods, with a special interest in advanced quantitative research methods. Covers topics such as student access, retention, success, faculty issues, institutional assessment, and higher ...

  2. Focus on Quality in Higher Education in India

    India has the credit of running the second largest higher education system in the world in terms of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). As of 1 June 2020, India has 54 central universities, 411 state universities, 123 deemed to be universities, 361 private universities, 81 institutions of national importance and 708 autonomous colleges and a large number of affiliated colleges and vocational ...

  3. PDF Higher Education in India: Challenges and Opportunities

    The chart 1.1 & 1.2 shown below depicts the growth of universities and colleges in India from 1970 to 2012 respectively. The number of universities has grown more than six times in last four decades and the number of colleges has been increased from 3603 in 1970-71 to 33000 colleges in 2011-12.

  4. Improving Indian Higher Education Quality: Challenges and Opportunities

    The core purpose of publicly funded Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) has been to extend the frontier of knowledge and cutting-edge quality research across disciplines. Accordingly, the HEIs should be such that can tackle social and economic questions and impact public policy. Interestingly, for attaining the desired and meaningful ...

  5. Equitable Access to Higher Education: An Analysis of India's National

    And yet, much of the past decades have borne witness to the growing attribution of political significance of higher education in particular, spilling over into the domains of research, innovation, pedagogy and content—at regional, national, and sometimes international levels: For instance, with a steady growth in the world's population ...

  6. India's Higher Education Landscape

    India's higher education landscape is a mix of progress and challenges. Its scope is vast: 1,043 universities, 42,343 colleges, and 11,779 stand-alone institutions make it one of the largest higher education sectors in the world, according to the latest (2019-20) All India Survey of Higher Education Report (AISHE 2019-20).

  7. PDF Measures to Promote Research and Innovation in Indian Universities

    The higher education sector in India is progressing and transforming gradually and steadily. Even though considerable gains ... academics and research - as our higher education needs are enormous and dynamic, beset by a number of challenges like population explosion, unemployment, brain-drain. There is an urgent need for reassessment of our ...

  8. Reviving Higher Education in India

    India has seen a rapid expansion in the higher education sector since 2001. There has been a dramatic rise in the number of higher education institutions (HEIs) and enrolment has increased four-fold.

  9. Higher Education and Research in India: an Overview

    Dr. Desh Raj Sirswal. Higher Education is a very important sector for the growth and development of human. resource which can take responsibility for social, economic and scientific development of ...

  10. PDF Higher education in India: Vision 2040

    Higher education architecture Education 1.0 Education 2.0 Education 3.0 Higher education foundation Funding Governance/Leadership Flexible Rigid Non-existent Faculty Curriculum and pedagogy Research Partnerships Infrastructure Higher education architecture Higher education foundation Funding Governance/Leadership

  11. (PDF) Status of Higher Education in India: Challenges, Issues and

    In the last two. decades, India has seen a rapid increase in capaciting higher education. (Ravi.et.al., 2019) Higher education pursuit and enrollment have increased a lmost four-folds. since 2001 ...

  12. Indian Higher Education

    The entire higher education ecosystem in India comprises around 1000+ universities and 42,000+ colleges imparting exceptional education. All these institutions fall under the purview of the Ministry of Education. ... Effective education in STEM courses is not limited to theoretical learning but extends to experimental and research-based ...

  13. India's Realignment of Higher Education

    Higher education in India has been stifled by overregulation. The opening of private universities has been severely restricted, and all but a few exempt institutions have had to comply with rigid curricular and organizational dictates. The system has been characterized by rote learning, high-stakes examination, premature specialization, and limited flexibility.

  14. Department of Higher Education

    The Department of Higher Education, MHRD, is responsible for the overall development of the basic infrastructure of Higher Education sector, both in terms of policy and planning. Under a planned development process, the Department looks after expansion of access and qualitative improvement in the Higher Education, through world class Universities, Colleges and other Institutions.

  15. (PDF) Reshaping Higher Education: A Comparative Study of India's

    This research paper critically analyzes the e volution of higher education policies in India through a. comparative e xamination of the Nat ional Po licy on Education NPE 1968 the National Po licy ...

  16. PDF Higher Education in India

    The higher education system in India has grown in a remarkable way, particularly in the post-independence period, to become one of the largest system of its kind in the world. However, the system has many issues of concern at present, like financing and management including access, equity and relevance, reorientation of programmes by laying ...

  17. PDF NEP 2020: Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Indian Higher

    India. Higher education plays an extremely important role in promoting human and societal well-being. As India becomes a knowledge economy and society, more and younger Indians are likely to aspire to higher education. The Constitution of India also envisioned it as - a democratic, just, socially conscious, cultured, and humane nation

  18. Differential attainment in assessment of postgraduate surgical trainees

    Further research is necessary to delineate the most effective methods to eliminate bias in higher surgical training. Surgical curriculum providers should be informed by the available literature on inequalities in surgical training, as well as other neighbouring specialties such as medicine or general practice, when designing assessments and ...

  19. King's College London Forms New Partnership with Iraqi Ministry of

    On Monday 20 May, His Excellency Dr Naeem Al-Aboudi, the Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR), and Professor Hazem Baqer Taher, Director of Scholarships and Cultural Relations Directorate, visited King's College London to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to mark a key step in the development of a partnership between the organisations.

  20. University of the Arts announces sudden closure

    The University of the Arts, a private nonprofit institution in Philadelphia, announced late Friday that it would close within a week. The institution's announcement came hours after the Middle States Commission on Higher Education withdrew its accreditation, saying UArts had "failed to inform the commission of closure in a timely manner or to properly plan for closure with prior approval ...

  21. Report: Most researchers use AI tools despite distrusting it

    More than three-quarters of researchers use some form of artificial intelligence (AI) tool in their research, despite having concerns about data security, intellectual property rights and AI's effectiveness, a new report finds. An Oxford University Press (OUP) survey released Thursday found that 76 percent of the 2,345 respondents use an AI tool when conducting their own research.

  22. Is college worth it? Here's what this national study says

    As economic outcomes have improved for young Americans with and without college degrees in the past decade, Pew Research Center finds perceived value of college is a mixed bag. ... Geoffrey Landward, Utah's new Commissioner of Higher Education, during his recent confirmation hearing before a committee of the Utah Senate, extolled the ...

  23. HSCAP Kerala 2024 Trial Allotment Result Announced ...

    The Directorate of General Education (DGE), Kerala, has announced the HSCAP Kerala Trial Allotment Result for 2024, marking a crucial step for over 4.5 lakh students seeking admission to the first ...

  24. New Education Policy and Higher Education Reforms in India

    Abstract. The New Education Policy (NEP), 2020, adopted by Government of India, envisages significant and far-reaching reforms in higher education sector in India. In this article, I foreground certain peculiar features of the process of massification of higher education in India, including privatisation and fragmentation.

  25. sigma 2/2024: Life insurance in the higher interest rate era

    27 May 2024. Get the publication. The surge in interest rates to 15-year highs dramatically improves the outlook for life and annuity insurance. After more than a decade of weak demand driven by low interest rates, profitability is recovering as rises in government bond yields improve investment returns and margins on life insurance products.

  26. Graduates Transforming Law Enforcement

    The pair recently earned education doctoral degrees in organizational leadership. Captain Trejo's academic journey began in 2020 during the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting on his experience, Trejo said the program was challenging with virtual learning and intense weekend Zoom sessions, testing his patience and ...