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Explore More on University and Higher Education

To help the readers to Explore More about the universities and higher education and show them the tremendous increase in the number of universities and colleges and also to keep in mind the purview of the Ministry of Education.

University is an institute of advanced (or tertiary) teaching and study which awards hypothetical degrees in numerous academic disciplines. Academies classically offer undergraduate as well as postgraduate agendas in diverse schools or facilities of education. The term university is derivative of the Latin word Universitas Magistrorum et scholarium, which r means “communal of educators and scholars”.

Primarily, academies were designed in the country of Europe. The Catholic Church monks used to design it. The Bologna University (Università di Bologna), formed in 1088, was the primary academic in the judgment of an organization that gives high degrees.

  • To have freedom from the religious academic institutes, although led by both non-religious as well as religious.
  • To use the term Universitas(a word which was invented at its establishment of university).
  • Issue secular as well as non-secular educational degrees.

Higher education can be termed as tertiary teaching leading towards the prize of a hypothetical grade. Higher schooling, also termed post-secondary studies, 3rd stage, or tertiary teaching is an elective final phase of official education that happens after the achievement of secondary studies. It signifies stages 6, 7, as well as 8 of the 2011 types of the Global Standard Cataloguing of Educational shape. Tertiary schooling at a no degree stage is occasionally mentioned as additional education or ongoing education as different from advanced education.

Tremendous Increase in the Number Of Universities

The Higher Schooling segment has seen a tremendous increase in the number of Universities, Institutions, and Colleges after freedom. The number of universities increased 34 times beginning from 20 in 1950 reaching 677 in 2014. The segment brags about 45 Central Universities out of which 40 universities are below the purview of the Ministry of Education,318 universities of the state, 129 Deemed to be Universities, 51 Institutes of Nationwide Importance (recognized below Acts of Legislature) under MoE (NITs – 16, IITs – 30 as well as IISERs – 5),185 universities of state private and 4 Institutions (recognized by various State legislations). The sum of colleges has also got themselves listed a manifold upsurge of 74 times by just 500 in the year 1950 rising to 37,204, as of March 31st, 2013. 

The growth in the field of higher education is done mainly by the universities which allow the students to gain higher education. 

In India, the universities are bound and are controlled by a certain act and they are incorporated under them. It is said that around millions of students come from foreign countries or of the same country get their entry in these universities for the aim of doing graduation, for getting post-graduate knowledge of studies and it is also said and believed that around millions of people also don’t use this portal i.e. leave these universities and go to foreign countries for their higher education and use their universities for graduation, post-graduate studies because there has been a tremendous increase in the number of universities in both foreign countries and India. 

The Centre and state are held responsible for higher education. They both are liable for the education that a person will receive after his school. The University Grants Commission and the other bodies that are held responsible are entrusted with the coordination and the determination of the colleges and universities. As the center and state are responsible, they have brought a tremendous increase in the universities and number of colleges because they do not want the students to suffer which will in turn affect the future of the country. 

Conclusion

As we have come to know that universities and colleges are very much important for the students who are termed as the future of the country and that the future should not be hampered for any reason. As the center and the state are responsible, they do not make mistakes and in the future, there has been a tremendous increase in the universities. Universities or colleges are very much important as they provide degrees for graduation and that degree helps the student to get a safe and secure job which helps to raise the economy of the country. But due to the tremendous increase in universities all over the world, many students leave their country and move to another country for higher education.

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