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As per "Report of the Higher education in India, Issues Related to Expansion, Inclusiveness, Quality and Finance", [211] the access to higher education measured in term of gross enrolment ratio increased from 0.7% in 1950/51 to 1.4% in 1960–61. By 2006/7 the GER increased to about 11%.
Higher education in India faces problems ranging from income and gender disparities in enrolment, to poor quality of faculty and teaching and even to a general lack of motivation and interest amongst students. [69] Industries cite skill shortage as one of the major factors contributing to the mounting number of unemployed graduates. [70]
Since the country's independence in 1947, the Indian government sponsored a variety of programmes to address the problems of illiteracy in both rural and urban India. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad , India's first Minister of Education, envisaged strong central government control over education throughout the country, with a uniform educational system.
The National Education Policy of India 2020 (NEP 2020), which was started by the Union Cabinet of India on 29 July 2020, outlines the vision of new education system of India. [1] The new policy replaces the previous National Policy on Education, 1986 .
Literacy rate map of India, 2011 [1] Literacy in India is a key for social-economic progress. [2] [3] The 2011 census, indicated a 2001–2011 literacy growth of 9.2%, which is slower than the growth seen during the previous decade. An old analytical 1990 study estimated that it would take until 2060 for India to achieve universal literacy at ...
The Right to Education (RTE) Act, implemented in India in 2010, has made several significant contributions to the country's education system. Some of the major achievements include: Increased Enrollment, reduced dropout and closure of gender gaps : Overall school enrollment reached 97.2% by 2018 [ 19 ] Similarly, there has been an increase in ...
A primary school book published under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Punjab. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Hindi: सर्व शिक्षा अभियान, lit. 'Education for all campaign'), or SSA, is an Indian Government programme aimed at the universalisation of Elementary education "in a time bound manner", the 86th Amendment to the Constitution of India making free and compulsory education to ...
Education in the Indian subcontinent began with the teaching of traditional subjects, including Indian religions, mathematics, and logic.Early Hindu and Buddhist centers of learning, such as the ancient Takshashila (in modern-day Pakistan), Nalanda (in India), Mithila (in India and Nepal), Vikramshila, Telhara, and Shaunaka Mahashala in the Naimisharanya forest, served as key sites for education.