Higher Education in India: The Status Quo and the Roadmap Ahead [Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), August 2022]

Title:

Higher Education in India: The Status Quo and the Roadmap Ahead

 

Author:

Zubiya Moin

 

Published:

Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI),  12 August 2022

https://www.impriindia.com/insights/higher-education-sector-india-nep/

Abstract:

Tertiary education is now being considered an imperative subject to a country’s economy as it is rapidly being recognized as a significant driver of economic competitiveness in an increasingly knowledge-driven global economy (OECD, 2008). Therefore, learning from the experiences of developed countries, many developing countries are now striving towards improving their education systems. In the pursuit of the same, the Indian government introduced three National Education policies (1968,1986,1992) since independence.  However, many problems still persist in the Indian education system to this date. This article attempts to specify the issues in the Indian higher/tertiary education system and explain the reasons behind these problems. The arrival of NEP 2020 was hailed as a revolutionary event in the history of the Indian education system and was expected to transform the education sector completely.  The article also critically analyses the National Education Policy 2020 from the perspective of higher education. It is found that NEP 2020 envisages impractically high aims but carries the potential to transform the Indian Higher education system. Finally, the challenges for NEP 2020, which may impede its effective implementation, are focused upon.

 

World Economic Forum (WEF) - Global Gender Gap Report 2022

Title:

Global Gender Gap Report 2022

Published:

World Economic Forum, 13 July 2022

https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2022

Report description:

Gender parity is not recovering, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2022. It will take another 132 years to close the global gender gap. As crises are compounding, women's workforce outcomes are suffering and the risk of global gender parity backsliding further intensifies.

Regional inequality in university attainment in seven African countries since 1960 [Scholarly Article - International Journal of Educational Development, 2021]

Title:

Regional inequality in university attainment in seven African countries since 1960

 

Author:

Rebecca Simson

Wadham College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

 

Published:

International Journal of Educational Development, 25 May 2021

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738059321000808

 

Highlights:

• Since the 1980s regional inequality in university attainment has increased across seven sampled African countries.  

• Regional inequality growth is driven by rising disparities between the main urban centres and the remaining regions.  

• This is attributed to an initial slow-down in attainment growth and high rates of skills-selective urban migration.

 

Abstract:

Inequalities in access to university education are of concern across the world, but many countries in Africa have faced particularly pronounced regional and ethnic inequalities in educational attainment. Have such disparities increased or decreased since the 1960s? Using census data to trace the sub-national origins of university students in seven African countries (Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) over successive birth cohorts shows that regional inequalities in access have taken a u-shaped path. In the first two decades of independence, as higher education expanded from a low base, graduates were growing more regionally and ethnically representative of the national populations. Since the 1980s regional inequalities have increased in most countries, on account of a growing attainment gap between people born in the largest cities and the remaining populations. This growing educational advantage accruing to those born in the main urban metropolises was initially driven by a slowdown in enrolment growth, coupled with high rates of skills-selective urban migration and higher educational performance in the urban regions. This new urban bias is rapidly changing the composition of the region’s educational elites.

 

Short Article - #BizTrends2020: Why off-campus (distance) learning will keep growing, and what trends to expect [South African focus]

Title:
#BizTrends2020: Why off-campus (distance) learning will keep growing, and what trends to expect

Author:
Professor Patrick Bean

Published:
BizCommunity, 9 January 2020

From the article:
"Post-schooling education remains a 'hot button' topic in South Africa. The high levels of unemployment and poverty are caused by numerous factors, but a struggling education system and barriers to entering higher education are certainly significant contributors. Alternatives to traditional face-to-face or contact learning (on-campus) are therefore seen as means of improving educational access for more South Africans, and offers various other benefits too."

To read this article:
https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/722/199525.html