Regulating India's Higher Education
India's universities answer to one central regulator, and the machine around them is being rebuilt on the 2020 education policy: credits that travel between skill courses and degrees, students who may leave a course and return, foreign universities being let in while Indian institutes open campuses abroad, and recognition moving onto portals — while the rules on who may be appointed to teach, and on who may be made a Vice-Chancellor, are still out for consultation and 32 institutions sit on the regulator's fake-university list. Behind that machinery sits a decade of expansion the ministry's annual survey now puts numbers on: 1,289 universities, 4.50 crore students and a gross enrolment ratio of 30 percent in 2023-24.
- AISHE
- gross enrolment ratio
- Gender Parity Index
- University Grants Commission
- National Education Policy 2020
- higher education institutions
- Ministry of Education
- STEM enrolment
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