CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

Higher Education

According to a United Nations report (2014) with 356 million 10-24 year-olds, India has the world's largest youth population and China is second with 269 million young people, followed by Indonesia (67 million), the US (65 million), and Pakistan (59 million). The United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs (2019) Central and Southern Asia was home to the largest number of youth (361 million), followed by Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (307 million). It is revealed that the Asian continent is the only region that shares the world-heist youth population. It is fortunate and provides good hops that can utilize the youth power for economic development by converting as skilled human resources by providing higher education. But, unfortunately, the contemporary unhealthy issues in higher education, most of the Asian region failed to effectively utilize the enormous youth power. Especially, India is one of the inevitable countries in the Asian region but it is the 78th place in corrupt nations out of 175 countries which affects higher education also. Keeping as background this article reveals various issues in higher education in India.

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