Higher education enrolment increased by 19 lakh in 2021-22 from previous session: Govt survey"The total enrolment in higher education has increased to nearly 4.33 crore in 2021-22 from 4.14 crore in 2020-21. There has been an increa...
25 Jan, 2024, 10.02 PM IST
Class of 2024: Job trends that will rule the 2024 placement seasonAccording to the All-India Survey on Higher Education (2020-21), the gross enrolment ratio (GER) in formal higher education (for 18-23 age ...
15 Dec, 2023, 01.14 PM IST
Highest enrolment in BA courses, maximum PhD students in Engineering and Tech stream: AISHE report"Bachelor of Science (BSc) has 49.12 lakh students enrolled (of them 52.2 per cent are girls). There are 43.22 lakh students enrolled in BC...
30 Jan, 2023, 04.36 PM IST
UP has highest number of colleges in country followed by Maharashtra, Karnataka: AISHE report"Similarly, Maharashtra comes second with 4,532 colleges and 34 colleges per lakh population. Karnataka comes at third position with 4,233 ...
30 Jan, 2023, 03.56 PM IST
India has more women STEM grads than US, UK or FranceAccording to World Bank data, percentage-wise there are more Indian female (43%) graduates in STEM at tertiary level than developed nations...
20 Jul, 2021, 10.23 AM IST
18.2% rise in women enrolment in 5 years: Higher education survey reveals interesting factsThe All India Survey on Higher Education 2019-20 has revealed some interesting facts including the fact that the percentage share of men is...
11 Jun, 2021, 09.17 AM IST
HRD points to India-China gaps across education parametersAccording to the data presented by the ministry, China had posted a GER of 25.65 in 2011 while India was at 22.76 during the same period. T...
01 Jul, 2020, 09.38 AM IST
Only 9.5% non-technical students among internship seekers: SurveyA major learning from the report is that content writing, data entry, and management profiles including business development and marketing,...
02 Mar, 2020, 11.43 AM IST
JNU professor withdraws from panel citing situation in universityEminent economist and JNU professor C P Chandrasekhar on Monday said he had withdrawn from the newly-constituted 28-member Standing Committ...
07 Jan, 2020, 11.53 AM IST
India gets maximum foreign students from Nepal, Karnataka favourite for higher education: HRD Ministry dataThe total number of foreign students enrolled in higher education is 47,427.
24 Sep, 2019, 01.34 PM IST
Women in higher education show steady rise, enrolment in top institutions not growingHowever, overall there are more females in eight out of 16 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on the Indian campuses.
24 Sep, 2019, 10.44 AM IST
HRD to workout modalities to implement 10% reservation in education institutesThe ministry is working out the number of seats that need to be increased in the educational institutions to be able to implement this quota
08 Jan, 2019, 07.03 PM IST
Aadhaar helps HRD ministry dig up 80,000 ghost lecturersThe portal will be a repository of information on teachers who were individually profiled in the annual survey called All India Survey on H...
06 Jan, 2018, 07.31 AM IST
Number of girl students in IITs only 8 pc in 2015-16: GovernmentAs per the AISHE report, GER in higher education during 2015-16 was 24.5 per cent as compared to 10 per cent in 2004-05, HRD minister Praka...
09 Feb, 2017, 11.02 PM IST
HRD ministry plans to rank Law, Medical colleges from next yearThe HRD ministry is planning to rank Medical and Law colleges, which were left out of its system of ranking higher education institutions, ...
22 May, 2016, 01.04 PM IST
25 univs, 18 colleges offering Master's degree in Yoga: GovernmentA total of 25 universities and 18 colleges are offering Master's Degree in Yoga across the country, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
06 May, 2016, 07.51 PM IST
Women outnumber men for Post Graduate, M Phil coursesThis ratio, however, changes at the post graduate level where the number of women is higher at 51 percent against 49 per cent men.
27 Dec, 2015, 12.26 PM IST