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All India Higher Education Survey
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- Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar released the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) for the year 2016-17 in New Delhi.
- The number of students enrolling for higher education (undergraduate, postgraduate and research-level studies within country) in India saw a marginal 0.7 per cent increase in 2016-17.
- The gross enrolment ratio (GER) in higher education had gone up 25.2 per cent in 2016-17 from 24.5 per cent in 2015-16.
- The country has set an aggressive target of achieving 30 per cent GER in higher education by 2020.
- GER is the total enrolment in higher education among the population in the age group of 18-23.
- According to the survey, the number of universities in the country rose to 864 last years as compared to 799 in 2015-16.
- Tamil Nadu had the highest GER in the country at 46.9 per cent. Bihar is at the bottom with 14.9 per cent of its youth in the age group of 18 to 23 enrolling for higher education.
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