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Source– The post is based on the article “The discrepancies in the latest AISHE report” published in The Hindu on 6th February 2023.
Syllabus: GS2- Issues related to development and management of education
Relevance– Statistics about higher education in India
News– The All-India Survey on Higher Education 2020-21 report was released recently.
What is the basic difference of the current report with previous reports?
It had revised the Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education retrospectively for the previous four years, by recalculating it based on population projections as per the 2011 Census. Previous reports had used projections based on the 2001 Census.
What are the discrepancies in the latest AISHE report?
A comparison of the population projections used in the AISHE 2020-21 report with the Census of India Report released in July 2020, shows variations.
There are sharp deviations in Tamil Nadu’s population projection used in the AISHE 2020-21 report between 2016 and 2020 and the population projection based on the CoI report.
The figures based on the CoI report show a gradual decline between 2016 and 2020. AISHE 2020-21 shows an increase for the first four years and a sharp drop in 2020.
In Himachal Pradesh, the projected population in the 18-23 age group for 2019 was revised upwards by 6% in the AISHE 2020-21 report compared to the AISHE 2019-20 report. However, the State’s GER for 2019 remained the same in both the reports.
