IHER
CPRHE/NIEPA has initiated a publication on India higher education entitled ‘India Higher Education Report’ (IHER). The IHER aims to focus on the current issues and challenges facing the higher education sector in India. It is envisaged that IHER may become an annual publication and serve as a good reference document for researchers and policymakers in India.
INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2020: Employment and Employability of Higher Education Graduates in India (Edited by N. V. Varghese and Mona Khare)
INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2020
India Higher Education Report 2020 critically analyzes the role played by the state, industries, and higher education institutions in the employment and employability of educated youth in India. The book discusses a wide range of topics such as employability skill gaps of higher education graduates; curriculum and skills training systems; formal and informal modes of skill formation; crisis of jobless growth in India; migration, education and employment; dimensions of gender, caste and education; general, technical and professional education; vocationalization; qualifications framework and skills certifications; curriculum and pedagogy in higher education for skill development; industry–academia linkages; entrepreneurship education and executive education; and sustainable employment.
i) Employment and employability of higher education graduates: an overview
ii) The crisis of jobless growth in India
iii) On the persistence of informal work and self-employment in India
iv)Migration, education and employment in India
v)Declining labour force participation in India: does education and training help?
vi)Trends in employment and unemployment in India: dimensions of gender, caste and education
vii)Skills mismatch of higher education graduates in India: factors determining employability quotient
viii)General, technical and professional education: employability skill gaps
ix)Education, skills mismatch and wage differentials
x)India’s national skills qualification framework and employment: the promise and the reality
xi)Curriculum and pedagogy in higher education for skill development
xii)Skilling India: vocational orientation to higher education
xiii)Skill universities in India
xiv)Informal modes of skill formation
xv)Industry–academia linkages in India’s technical education sector
xvi)Refuelling entrepreneurship education in India: a case study
xvii)Executive education and career advancement: sustainable employment
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INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2019: Governance and Management of Higher Education in India (Edited by N. V. Varghese and )
INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2019
Governance in education is well recognized as critical to institutional performance and effectiveness. Governance and Management of Higher Education in India is the fifth book in the series India Higher Education Report initiated by the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration. The book examines macro issues of governance, focusing on the role of the state and market, regulation at national and state levels, and accountability measures. It also looks at institutional issues of autonomy, affiliation, teacher recruitment, and managing quality and excellence. The discussions in the book centre on theoretical perspectives and empirical evidences. The volume will be an important resource for academics, policy makers as well as scholars and researchers of public policy, political science and economics.
i) Governance of Higher Education in India: An Introduction
ii) State, Market and Governance of Higher Education
iii) Regulation of Higher Education in India
iv)The State Councils of Higher Education: A Case for Strengthening Intermediary Agencies
v)Accountability Measures to Improve Governance
vi)Governance and Management of Affiliated Colleges
vii)Management of Autonomous Colleges: A Movement from Academic Colonialism to Freedom and Democratization of Higher Education
viii)Governance and Autonomy: A Study of Central and State Universities
ix)Governance and Management of Higher Education at the Institutional Level: Reality, Concerns and Transmutation
x)Managing Transition from ‘State’ to ‘Central’ University in the University of Allahabad: Issues and Challenges
xi)Managing Quality and Excellence: Conceptual and Institutional Factors
xii)Managing Quality and Excellence at the Institutional Level: A Study of Bharathiar University
xiii)The Political Economy of Governance in Higher Education: Temporary Teachers Phenomenon
xiv)Leveraging Technology to Solve the Pentagon Puzzle of Higher Education in India
xv)Managing Student Diversity in Indian Higher Education Institutions: Achieving Academic Integration and Social Inclusion
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INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2018: Financing of Higher Education (Edited by N. V. Varghese and Jinusha Panigrahi)
INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2018
In the last few decades, India has experienced several shifts in the policies pertaining to the financing of higher education. These shifts include a move from public financing to keep pace with the expansion requirements of the sector; the strengthening of market forces in higher education both through privatisation of public institutions and operation of private institutions; and a move from the financing of institutions to the financing of students. The Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE) has initiated major research activities to understand how the recent changes have affected the financing of higher education in India and how the higher education institutions cope with and respond to these changes. India Higher Education Report 2018, the fourth volume in the series, presents this study to provide a comprehensive analysis of financing of higher education in India. This book investigates the changing dynamics and related key issues including state–market dynamics, university–industry linkages, foreign aid, institutional strategies to overcome shortages in funding, issues with self-financing courses, educational loans and fee reimbursement schemes, expansion and financing of private higher education.
i) Financing of Higher Education: An Introduction
ii) State-Market Dynamics in Higher Education Financing
iii) Towards Augmenting Resources: University–Industry Linkages
iv)Foreign Aid for Higher Education in India
v)Gender Budgeting in Higher Education
vi)Institutional Strategies to Overcome Declining Public Funding in Higher Education
vii)Self-Financing Courses in Public Institutions
viii)Changing Sources of Funding: A Study of Punjabi University
ix)Scholarship Schemes for Student Financing
x)Choice-based Credit System (CBCS) and Semester System in Indian Higher Education
xi)Student Mortgage Loans vis-à-vis Income Contingent Loans: Problems and Prospects
xii)Public Financing of Private Education: A Case Study of Fee Reimbursement Scheme (FRS) in Andhra Pradesh
xiii)Growth and Expansion of Private Higher Education
xiv)Financing of Private Higher Education Institutions in India Sangeeta Angom
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INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2017: Teaching Learning and Quality (Edited by N. V. Varghese, Anupam Pachauri and Sayantan Mandal)
INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2017
Understanding teaching, learning and quality in higher education requires in-depth engagement with theoretical discourse and empirical evidences. With this objective, the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE) has initiated multiple research activities to develop deeper insights into quality concerns in higher education. India Higher Education Report 2017 evaluates the Indian higher education system in terms of teaching, learning and quality and presents a comprehensive analysis of reforms that took place in these domains. Organized into three major parts—ranking, research and quality; teachers and teaching–learning; and quality management—this book discusses changes and issues that have affected the country’s higher education system in recent times.
i) Teaching, Learning and Quality in Higher Education in India: An Introduction
ii) World University Ranking Systems: Are They Indicators of Quality?
iii) Measuring Performance of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)
iv)Research on Higher Education in India
v)Availability and Shortages of Teachers in Higher Education
vi)Professional Development of Teachers in Higher Education
vii)Critical Perspectives of Teaching-Learning in Indian Higher Education
viii)Developing e-Content for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): An Experience of Teaching-Learning Centre
ix)Student Assessments in Higher Education
x)Choice-based Credit System (CBCS) and Semester System in Indian Higher Education
xi)Quality and Accountability in Higher Education
xii)Managing Quality at Institutional Level
xiii)Effects of External and Internal Quality Assurance on Indian Higher Education Institutions
xiv)Finance and Qualtiy: The Reshaping of Higher Education
xv)Qualification Frameworks for Improving Quality and Relevance of Education
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INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2016: Equity (Edited by N. V. Varghese, Nidhi S. Sabharwal and C.M. Malish)
INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2016
Equity in education is well recognized as central to achieving inclusive growth and development. The second in the series initiated by the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education of the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, India Higher Education Report 2016 focuses on the theme of equity in higher education. The report examines issues related to the expansion of higher education; economic, social, regional and gender inequalities and their implications on education; student diversity and discrimination; and the changing roles of the state, market and private sector in a period of massification of the education sector. The book also addresses topics on learning outcomes, and employment and employability of higher education graduates. The discussions in the book centre on the theoretical perspectives and empirical evidences. This book will be an important resource for academics, policy makers, civil society organizations, media and those concerned with higher education and development. It will also be useful to scholars and researchers of education, public policy, sociology and economics..
i) The State, Markets, Equity and Quality in Higher Education
ii) The Redefinition of Equality and Excellence and Declining Goals of Democratic Egalitarianism in Higher Education
iii) Economic and Educational Inequalities in India: Access and Outcome Indicators for Different Socio-Religious Groups
iv)Private Sector and Equity in Higher Education: Challenges of Growing Unequal Access
v) Regional Disparities in Availability, Access and Equity in Higher Education in India
vi) Higher Education in India: Access, Quality and Structure
vii) Concerns of Minority Groups in Higher Education: The Plight of Muslim Community
viii) Higher Education and Gendered Norms: Enabling the `Use’ of Women’s Education
ix) Disability Rights in Higher Education: A Preliminary Investigation of Exclusion and Barriers in Indian Universities
x) Equity and Excellence: A Study of Navodaya Vidyalaya
xi) Disparities in Outcome: Graduate Labour Market in India
xii) Disparities in Graduate Employability Skills
xiii)Access and Exclusion: Mapping Social Diversity in Education in India
xiv) Equity in Higher Education: What Happens after Entry?
xv) Diversity and Discrimination: Role of Higher Education for Civic Learning
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INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2015 (Edited by N. V. Varghese and Garima Malik)
INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION REPORT 2015
The first issue of the IHER report is comprehensive and has articles on major issues and challenges facing higher education in the country. The unprecedented expansion of higher education in India and the proliferation of providers in turn have posed enormous challenges to equity, quality and financing of the sector. The India Higher Education Report 2015 traces the evolution of higher education and discusses the key role of committees and commissions whose reports and recommendations form the backdrop of contemporary developments. Authoritative and comprehensive, the volume examines a range of themes including equity, financing, employment, quality, and governance. It also engages with new and recent data as well as current issues and debates.
The themes included in the IHER 2015 are:
i) The Higher Education Context i.e., Policies, Commission and Committees
ii) Equity in Higher Education
iii) Quality in Higher Education
iv) Diversification of the System
v) Employment of the Higher Education Graduates
vi) Financing of Higher Education
vii) Private Higher Education
viii) Governance and Management
ix) Internationalisation
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