Teacher to students ratio in Indian Higher Education institutions is lower than Brazil and China
In the Indian Higher Education system the ratio of teacher to students is lower and in this category we lag behind the nations such as Brazil and China. These facts were brought to light by a report published by the government. The 24:1 ration in Indian institutes is lower than 19:1 in Brazil and China. In the report, countries were compared and the nation’s students to teacher ratio was lower than that of Sweden's 12:1, Britain's 16:1, Russia's 10:1 and Canada's 9:1. This is not only over-burdening the teachers but is also affecting the quality of academics and research taken up the teachers. "A low student-teacher ratio indicates the burden on a single teacher of teaching multiple students as well as the lack of time that each student gets. Apart from this simplistic effect, in an institution of higher learning, a smaller number of overburdened teachers are also unable to pursue any research or encourage their students to do so. Consequently, the culture of questioning and reasoning cannot be inculcated as a part of higher education in most institutions," the Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP) report said. The overall situation is getting worse as the student intake is increasing in the institutes (newly approved EWS quota) and low faculty recruitment in the higher education institutes. According to a rough estimate, the nation’s higher education sector is facing the shortage of nearly 5 lakh teachers (central, state and private universities). "India is short of professors, with 6,600 posts vacant in central universities, a shortfall of 33 per cent. In IITs and state universities, 35 per cent and 38 percent vacancies need to be filled respectively," the report stated
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