India’s higher education system is considered as one of the most sophisticated and popular systems across the globe. The main reason for this is the increasing India's diaspora across the globe. Today, top global technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, HCL are headed by Indian CEOs and this is the testimony for the Indian education system. Even today, many global technology companies prefer Indian candidates over candidates from other countries.
It can be said that from a normal person’s perspective, imparting subjective knowledge and triggering mental development are the two main objectives of education. But from a scholar’s point of view, education enables and empowers people, and it provides them with diverse knowledge, expertise and skills. Education equips people with basic values and ethics to make them sharp enough to deal with the real world. The objectives of education in today’s world are to transfer social heritage, physical, mental, social, moral, cultural, vocational and character formation, entrepreneurship development, citizenship training, and so on.
As universities and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) move towards academic reforms, an ecosystem that is both flexible and innovative is being created in the current educational systems across the globe. Experts have highlighted the significant emerging trends in the higher education sector and underlined the global best practices in many global platforms.
The education experts feel that the latest NEP 2020 is built on the foundational pillars of access, equity, quality, affordability and accountability and further adds value to the Indian education system. Experts also state that the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is aligned to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and aims to transform India into a vibrant knowledge society and a global knowledge superpower.
In the digital era, the educational ecology also has a decentralised learning ecosystem for online education and professional development that teaches people how to build complete products in future technological fields and to improve their job skills.
Higher Education in India
As per the University Grants Commission (UGC), the total number of universities in India as of now are:
- State Universities: 453
- Deemed to be Universities: 126
- Central Universities: 54
- Private Universities: 410.
