{"id":224168,"date":"2023-01-30T19:04:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=224168"},"modified":"2023-02-25T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T06:23:48","slug":"student-enrolments-went-up-by-7-5-in-2020-21-all-india-survey-on-higher-education-data-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/student-enrolments-went-up-by-7-5-in-2020-21-all-india-survey-on-higher-education-data-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Student enrolments went up by 7.5% in 2020-21, All India Survey on Higher Education data show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the following articles:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/b>Ministry of Education releases All India Survey on Higher Education(AISHE) 2020-2021<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> PIB <\/b>on 29th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/b>Student enrolments went up by 7.5% in 2020-21, All India Survey on Higher Education data show<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 30th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Ministry of Education has released the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the All India Survey on Higher Education(AISHE)?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The AISHE survey has been published by the Ministry of Education since 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

The survey covers all higher educational institutions located in Indian Territory imparting higher education in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The survey collects detailed information on different parameters such as student enrollment, teacher\u2019s data, infrastructural information, financial information etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the first time, in AISHE 2020-21, HEIs have filled data using an entirely online data collection platform through the Web Data Capture Format(DCF) developed by the Department of Higher Education through the National Informatics Centre(NIC).<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the key findings of the AISHE 2020-21 survey?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Higher Education enrolment: <\/b>Enrolment in higher education has increased by 7.5% in 2020-21 from 2019-20, with female admissions increasing from 18.8 million to 20.1 million in this period.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Since 2020-21, the year when the COVID-19 pandemic began, there was a 7% rise in enrolments in distance education programmes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Female Enrolment: <\/b>Female enrolment in higher education programmes had increased to 49% of total enrolments in 2020-21 compared to 45% the previous year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The highest enrolment was seen at the undergraduate level which accounted for 78.9% of all enrolments followed by postgraduate level courses, which accounted for 11.4% of the year\u2019s total enrolments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Popular courses<\/strong>: Among all undergraduate enrolments, the most popular remained the Bachelor of Arts programmes which saw 104 lakh enrolments (52.7% women; 47.3% men) followed by Bachelor of Science courses where women outnumbered men.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER):<\/b> The GER in higher education has increased to 27.3 from 25.6 in 2019-20. GER is the ratio of 18-23-year-old adults attending college to the total population. It has been calculated according to the 2011 census.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Female GER has overtaken Male GER since 2017-18. Gender Parity Index (GPI), the ratio of female GER to male GER, has increased from 1 in 2017-18 to 1.05 in 2020-21.<\/span><\/p>\n

Social groups<\/b>: The overall enrolment percentage of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class(OBC) students in higher education institutions have increased notably from 2014-15 to 2020-21, with ST students registering nearly a 50% growth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Universities: <\/b>During 2020-21, the number of Universities has increased by 70, and the number of Colleges has increased by 1,453.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rajasthan hosts the maximum number of universities in India followed by Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teachers:<\/b> The number of teachers increased across higher education institutes but still SC and ST teachers continued to be under-represented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The survey also found that there were 75 women teachers for every 100 male ones across institutes in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The teacher-pupil ratio was at 27 for all universities, colleges and standalone institutions and at 24 if only regular mode is considered. The best teacher-pupil ratio was found in States like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the following articles: \u201cMinistry of Education releases All India Survey on Higher Education(AISHE) 2020-2021\u201d published in PIB on 29th January 2023 \u201cStudent enrolments went up by 7.5% in 2020-21, All India Survey on Higher Education data show\u201d published in The Hindu on 30th January 2023 What is the News?… Continue reading Student enrolments went up by 7.5% in 2020-21, All India Survey on Higher Education data show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[3590,10498],"class_list":["post-224168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}