Indian PhD enrolment up 60 per cent in five years | Gender - Times Higher Education

Joyce Lau, Hong Kong-based journalist summarize, Nationwide survey shows overall gains in capacity, enrolment and gender balance. 

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Enrolment on PhDs has increased by 60 per cent in India over the past five years, according to new data.

Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank called the rise, reported in the All India Survey on Higher Education, “heartening”. India plans to greatly boost innovation with a 500 billion rupee (£5 billion) National Research Foundation announced this year.

The survey, released this month, showed growth across almost all key higher education metrics, in line with the goals of the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP), which aims to double the size of the higher education sector over two decades..

However, the total number of male students still exceeds female students because of a gender imbalance in the country’s birth rates. Male students still dominate at the elite institutions of national importance.

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Source: Times Higher Education