The number of students enrolled for higher education has increased dramatically, on Monday at a conference HRD Minister Kapil Sibal revealed that the gross enrolment ratio (GER) for higher education has shot up from 12.4 to 20.2. According to survey report number of students enrolling for higher education has increased suddenly in last four years. 
“The results of the survey are tentative and not firm, but if validated, they are very encouraging. The ratio for developed countries is in the region of 35-40. The survey results show that we are getting there. If they hold, we can expect the ratio to go up to 30-35 by 2029,” said Kapil Sibal. GER is a measure of the percentage of the relevant age group that is enrolled.
With this sudden increase universities are throwing their own challenges. This large influx into higher education would possibly require 800 more universities and 50,000 more colleges. How can the physical infrastructure be built so quickly? Yet there can’t be any delay. Even a year’s delay means the child is older by a year,” he said.
HRD Ministry has come up with a five point action plan based on the advantage of new technology.
Five Point Action Plan
1. Low-cost devices such as tablets and mobile phones would play critical role in education in absence of physical infrastructure
2. Proliferation of cloud-computing. This will serve 4 regions which,in turn, will serve various colleges
3. Open education resources to be expanded by providing course content through IT highway. Communications network will be built
4. Hundreds of courses will be sent out online and make it possible for students to create own combination – e.g., mathematics and music
5. Communications infrastructure to create virtual world for students to work with machines on the net or carry out lab experiments
“The results of the survey are tentative and not firm, but if validated, they are very encouraging. The ratio for developed countries is in the region of 35-40. The survey results show that we are getting there. If they hold, we can expect the ratio to go up to 30-35 by 2029,” said Kapil Sibal. GER is a measure of the percentage of the relevant age group that is enrolled.
With this sudden increase universities are throwing their own challenges. This large influx into higher education would possibly require 800 more universities and 50,000 more colleges. How can the physical infrastructure be built so quickly? Yet there can’t be any delay. Even a year’s delay means the child is older by a year,” he said.
HRD Ministry has come up with a five point action plan based on the advantage of new technology.
Five Point Action Plan
1. Low-cost devices such as tablets and mobile phones would play critical role in education in absence of physical infrastructure
2. Proliferation of cloud-computing. This will serve 4 regions which,in turn, will serve various colleges
3. Open education resources to be expanded by providing course content through IT highway. Communications network will be built
4. Hundreds of courses will be sent out online and make it possible for students to create own combination – e.g., mathematics and music
5. Communications infrastructure to create virtual world for students to work with machines on the net or carry out lab experiments
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