According to the data from the human resource development ministry, the employability is still a major concern for the colleges in India. Indian colleges added close to 3.4 million new students in higher education during the period of 2014-15 and 2016-17.
The increase in the GER (gross enrolment ratio) of the country is a good news but the dark side is that there are not enough jobs in the country to provide employment to the educated youth.
“The addition of more students to the higher education pool is counterproductive. First, because they are not industry-ready due to the poor quality of education. And, second, because it will only aggravate the unemployment problem,” said Tahsin Zahid, co-chairman of the skill development committee.
“When we are not creating enough jobs, what will happen to these so-called qualified job-seekers?” Zahid added.
In 2016-17 India had more than 40,000 colleges, 11,669 standalone institutes, and 864 universities, while in 2010-11, there were 32,974 colleges and 621 universities.
Other than the problem of unemployment, understaffing of the educational institutes is another issue which needs to be addressed. Students are increasing but there are not enough qualified teachers to teach them.
According to the data, there were 1.37 million teachers in 2016-17 as opposed to 1.52 million teachers in 2015-16 and with the introduction of Aadhaar card in the educational institutes to verify the employees, more than 130,000 teachers turned out to be the ghost teachers.
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Shortage Of Teachers
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