The growth in enrolments of Scheduled Tribe (ST) students in higher education between 2014-15 and 2020-21 has been 47%, while OBC enrolments have increased by 31.67% in the same period. These are some of the key findings of the All India Survey on Higher Education 2020-21 (AISHE) conducted by the Ministry of Education. Other AISHE findings include: * Enrolment of ST students has increased to 24.1 lakh in 2020-21 from 21.6...
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Critical data on India's higher education is out but only Modi has hijacked headlines -Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in When you put the reports by HRD ministry and CMIE survey together, you are looking at a simmering volcano. While Indians were busy celebrating the country’s global triumph and commiserating about its terrestrial adventures, two important reports went almost unnoticed. The eighth annual All India Survey on Higher Education 2018-19 was released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development last week. It coincided with the release of four-monthly report ‘Unemployment in...
More »Upper-caste share is down, more marginal groups enter campuses -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express New education report: Muslims, disabled most under-represented. While the proportion of upper-caste students in higher education institutions is still considerably higher than their share in the population, for the first time ever their “erstwhile near-monopoly” is being eroded with their percentage share falling to below 50 per cent over the last few years, according to a study. Advertising All other groups, women, Other Backward Classes (OBC), Scheduled Castes (SC), and...
More »Faculty numbers dip 2.34 lakh in 3 years -Vikas Pathak
-The Hindu AISHE confirms rising vacancies in higher education New Delhi: The total number of teachers in higher educational institutions in India has come down by about 2.34-lakh in the last three years, as per the All India Survey on Higher Education report 2017-18. Coming at a time when there has been widespread concern over the continuing vacancies in universities, the report is likely to be an eye-opener on the dearth of teachers...
More »Intake of Muslim students in Bengal varsities abysmally low, says survey -Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Lack of education at primary and secondary levels is seen as one of the main reasons The percentage of Muslim students in leading State and Central universities of West Bengal is abysmally low, revealed the sixth All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) for the year 2015-16. The report, prepared by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, was released on Monday. Among the elite institutions that could not enrol any Muslim...
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