Publication: From Good to Great in Indian Tertiary Education: Realizing the Promise of the National Education Policy
Date
2023-03-23
ISSN
Published
2023-03-23
Author(s)
Arnhold,Nina
Tognatta,Namrata Raman
Tognatta,Namrata
Abstract
India has one of the largest and
fastest-growing tertiary education systems in the world. The
system enrolls 37 million students across nearly 50,000
institutions. The recently endorsed National Education
Policy (NEP) aims at a further doubling of the gross
enrollment ratio in higher education from 26.3 percent to 50
percent by 2035. Despite its size and growth rate, and the
emphasis placed on tertiary education by Indian policymakers
in recent times, the system has faced continuous challenges
of equitable access, quality, governance, and financing,
with the quality of inputs and outputs not keeping pace with
the expansion of the sector. The World Bank has supported
tertiary education in India through a series of engagements
in technical education at the national level, and general
tertiary education in specific states. The NEP’s proposal
for broad-based tertiary education reforms as a key step
toward transforming the tertiary education sector in India
aligns with the Bank’s global tertiary education strategy
and presents an opportunity for the Bank’s engagement in
this area through analytic work, dialogue with key
stakeholders, and strategic engagement with states and
tertiary education institutions. Based on this analysis, the
World Bank in 2020-2021 expanded its engagement in Indian
tertiary education through dedicated analytical and advisory
work in the NEP context. Focusing on the areas of access and
equity, employability, digitalization, internationalization,
academic careers, governance, funding, as well as quality
assurance, the World Bank conducted a series of virtual
events and prepared technical reports discussing the status
quo in Indian tertiary education in the context of the
proposed NEP reforms and international trends. The report at
hand provides a summary of the outcomes of this work.
Citation
“Arnhold,Nina; Dey,Sangeeta; Goyal,Sangeeta; Larsen,Kurt; Tognatta,Namrata Raman; Tognatta,Namrata; Salmi,Jamil. 2023. From Good to Great in Indian Tertiary Education: Realizing the Promise of the National Education Policy. © World Bank, Washington DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/39582 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”