Education in India, An introduction
About Education in India
For centuries, India has been a major centre for learning and many popular universities existed here. Even today, the country has some of the best Universities in the world. Besides, it is also facing many challenges in its primary education while striving to reach 100% literacy. Through the Universal Compulsory Primary Education, maintaining the quality of education in rural areas has been difficult and Kerala is the only Indian state to achieve this goal.
All levels of education, from primary to higher education, are overseen by the Department of Higher Education and the Department of School Education and Literacy. The Indian government has also heavily subsidized the education, although there is an initiative to make the higher education partially self-financing.
The Indian Education System has many stages such as the Nursery, the Primary, the Secondary, the Higher Secondary, the Graduation, and the Post Graduation. ThePreprimary or the Nursery has the Lower Kindergarten and the Upper Kindergarten, where the basic reading and writing skills are developed. The Primary school has the children between the ages of six and eleven. It has the organized classes of one to five. The Secondary school children are between the ages of eleven and fifteen and the classes are organized from six to ten. The higher secondary school students are between the ages of sixteen and seventeen and the classes are organized as eleven and twelve. In some states, the classes between six and eight are also referred as the Middle schools and those between eight and ten are referred as the high schools.There are many different streams available after secondary education.The Higher Education in India aims at providing education to specialize in a field and includes many technical schools, colleges, and universities. The schools in India are controlled by various boards such as the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) board, the state government boards, the National Open School and the International schools.
There are plenty of government-funded schools in each major Indian city catering to the working classes. Even though there are many Government high schools with English as the medium of instruction, the students are usually taught in the regional language. These institutions are heavily subsidised and the study materials are also subsidised sometimes. The Government schools have the state curriculum. The secondary education is also provided by a number of private schools and these schools will either follow the national curriculum or the state curriculum.
As per the census 2001, the following represents the non-graduation market of India.
Educational level | Holders |
Total | 502,994,684 |
Unclassified | 97,756 |
Non-technical diploma or certificate not equal to degree | 386,146 |
Technical diploma or certificate not equal to degree | 3,666,680 |
Higher Secondary, Intermediate, Pre-university or Senior Secondary | 37,816,215 |
Matriculation or Secondary | 79,229,721 |
Middle | 90,226,846 |
Primary | 146,740,047 |
Below Primary | 144,831,273 |
The Higher education in India has different and divergent streams each of which is monitored by an apex body. These apex bodies are indirectly controlled by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and are funded by the state governments. There are 18 important universities called as the Central Universities, which are maintained by the Union Government. The accreditation for the universities in India is required by the law unless it was created through an act of Parliament. There are many accreditations for higher learning given by various autonomous institutions established by the University Grants Commission. Some of them are given below.
- All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
- Distance Education Council (DEC)
- Indian Council for Agriculture Research (ICAR)
- Bar Council of India (BCI)
- National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NACC)
- National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)
- Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI)
- Medical Council of India (MCI)
- Pharmacy Council of India (PCI)
- Indian Nursing Council (INC)
- Dentist Council of India (DCI)
- Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH)
- Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM)
Education in India: Menu
- Education in India, An introduction
- Importance of Education
- Why Should I learn?
- Brief History of Education in India
- Levels of Education in India
- University Education in India
- Schooling in India
- All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
- All India Management Association (AIMA)
- Bar Council of India (BCI)
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
- Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
- Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS)
- Central Hindi Directorate (CHD)
- Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE)
- Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET)
- Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL)
- International Training Program (ITP)
- Commission of Scientific & Technical Terminology (CSTT)
- Council of Architecture (COA)
- Dental Council of India (DCI)
- Directorate General of Shipping
- DOEACC Society
- Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
- Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
- Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
- Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)
- Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)
- Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)
- Indian School of Business
- Indian School of Mines (ISM)
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)
- Institute for Plasma Research (IPR)
- Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
- Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)
- Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc)
- Institute Of Physics (IOP)
- Medical Council of India
- National Board of Accreditation (NBA)
- National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
- National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
- National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
- National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA)
- Pharmacy Council of India (PCI)
- Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (RSS)
- Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI)
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP)
- Technical Teacher's Training Institute (TTTI)
- Indian Institutes of Management (IIM)
- Veterinary Council of India (VCI)
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- Institute of Cost and Works Accounts of India
- Law Education
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