Furqan Qamar

Why are Muslims missing from higher education?

May 24, 2023

The latest edition of the All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE), as published by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, reports that the number of Muslims in higher education declined from 21.01 Lakh in 2019-20 to 19.22 Lakh in 2020-21. Thus 1.79 Lakh Muslim students are missing from...

A study of Muslims in contemporary India

May 3, 2023

Muslims in India have lately been at their wit’s end trying to make sense of their past, present and future in this great nation. What should they believe? Whom should they trust? In what and to whom do they repose their confidence? Should they guide their perceptions and decisions on...

Raising GER in higher education to 50 per cent

April 22, 2023

A specific and time-bound target of the new National Education Policy (NEP 2020) has been to raise the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education to 50 per cent by 2035. GER in higher education was around 24.94 per cent when the policy was pronounced in 2020. GER in higher...

NEP 2020: Selective implementation harms higher education

April 13, 2023

One of the major emphases of the National Education Policy (NEP 2020) has been on reforming the regulatory framework for higher education in India. Two years have elapsed since the policy was approved and announced. A number of initiatives, some stated and some unstated, have been announced and launched during...

Can Indian higher education become second to none in the world?

March 29, 2023

The third anniversary of the National Education Policy (NEP 2020) is about three months away. It may be expected that it will be celebrated with as much gusto as in the past two years. It inter-alia, promises that by 2040 the Indian higher education system shall be second to none...

ChatGPT: Implications for Higher Education

February 25, 2023

ChatGPT describes itself as “a state-of-the-art, open-source language model developed by OpenAI. It’s based on transformer architecture and was trained on a diverse range of internet text, including websites, books, and social media platforms. The model has been fine-tuned to perform well in a variety of natural language processing tasks,...

Invite only best foreign higher education providers

January 9, 2023

Draft regulation allowing foreign universities to set up campuses in India suffers from some contradictions. It requires foreign institutions to offer the same quality of education as they do at home. At the same time, it prohibits them from offering programmes and courses that could potentially jeopardise the national interest...

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