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State-specific higher education index by FICCI-EY
LISTS TAMIL NADU, DELHI, CHANDIGARH, HARYANA, AND KERALA AS TOP PERFORMERS
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HERE IS A NEED FOR THE states
to discover their own strengths and
weaknesses; recognize their natural
strategies; and devise their sub-national
action plans for their journey towards
good higher education. By 2030, India
will be amongst the youngest nations in
the world with nearly 150 million people
in the college-going age group. By 2030,
the already existing challenges for Indian
higher education – access, equity and
quality – will only be greatly exacerbated
unless we significantly transform our
higher education model. In this context,
FICCI released a report called, statefocused roadmap to India's 'vision 2030'”
during its annual Higher Education
Summit this year on November 3 in New
Delhi. Prepared in collaboration with EY,
the report is an attempt to articulate an
ambitious vision for higher education
reform and lay out a roadmap to
achieving it. Accordingly states have
been categorized on basis of an index.
Among key findings of the research
report is the revelation that most UTs do
not have universities and have less than
20 higher education institutes per lakh
population whereas, Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh and Telangana have more than
60 institutes per lakh population.
Similarly, Research Institutes with most
number of publications are concentrated
in a handful of states such as Tamil Nadu,
Maharashtra