Education Facts in India

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Just one out of nine children finishing school joins a college. India has one of the lowest higher education enrollment ratio of 11 per cent. In the US it is 83 per cent.

A study by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council showed that 90 per cent of the colleges and 70 per cent of the universities that the council graded were of middling or poor quality.

Shortage of teachers was endemic with even the IITs reporting a 20 to 30 per cent shortfall in faculty.

On an average most Indian universities revise their curricula only once in five to 10 years but even then they get defeated in both letter and spirit.

Over-regulation by the government and a multiplicity of agencies have seen higher education stagnate and corruption become institutionalized.

In 50 years, only 44 private institutions were granted deemed university status by the University Grants Commission. In the last 5 years, it has granted that status to 49 more, leading to charges of impropriety.

The shortage of good institutions has seen cut-off percentages for entry into good colleges soar to genius levels. This year’s qualifying marks for RCom (Hons) course in Delhi’s SRCC was 98.75 per cent.

Studies show that the number of students committing suicide because of the pressure to perform well in secondary board exams is rising alarmingly.

Indian students now spend $7 billion to go abroad and study in foreign universities because of the poor quality of education at home. Yet the government drags it feet over permitting foreign universities to set up shop in India. Where in same cost we can successfully implement and run around 10 more IITs.

The quality of school education hasn’t improved. A recent study found that in rural north India on an average day, there is no teaching activity in about half” of the primary schools

The US currently accounts for over a third of the entire world’s output of articles in science and engineering. India, in contrast, accounts for less than 3 per cent of research papers published and in terms of citations barely 1 per cent.

44% of India's population are children.

India spends only 3.3 percent of its GDP on education, compared to an average 5.8 percent in developed countries.

GOI had made a commitment to spend 6% of GDP on education in 1968, however the highest spend made so far is 4% of GDP.

In India, 50% of children aged 6-18 do not go to school

SCHOOLS IN INDIA

There are 1.29 million schools in India of which less than 10% are private unaided schools

EDUCATION AND WOMEN IN INDIA

In India, 53% of girls in the age group of 5 to 9 years are illiterate. On average, women receive only 1.8 years of schooling in India