Presentation by AIMS Institutes at University Guidance Conference-2016

1. The challenges of
Higher Education in India

2. AIMS Institute of Higher Education
 Founded in 1994 and affiliated to the Bangalore University
Runs UG & PG programs on Hospitality, Management, Commerce,
Humanities, IT & Mathematics
Accredited by NAAC as Grade A with a GPA of 3.46 on a scale of 4
Accredited by IACBE, USA
Awarded as a Great Place to Study, by Skill Tree, UK
Vision: “Transform youth into professionals of global excellence
with a deep concern for society”
Campus in Peenya with over 2000 student

3.  UNIVERSITIES
 There are nearly 800 Universities in India.
 Of which 24 are Central Universities,
 342 are State Universities,
 125 are Deemed Universities,
 and 228 are Private Universities.
Source: MHRD
 There are over 35000 colleges affiliated to various State Universities in the
country. There are 5500 B-Schools, 3345 engineering colleges, 1090 medical
colleges, 342 dental colleges, and a large number of degree colleges offering
multiple disciplines including Arts, Commerce, and Science.
Higher Education Profile

4.  National Institutes funded by Centre
 India boast’s of national-level institutions covering almost every discipline such as
health, management, science and technology, law, social science, education, linguistics,
fine art, architecture, design, agriculture, food, pharma, space, nuclear and robotics.
 Many of these institutions have achieved international recognition as centers of
excellence in their respective fields and are sought after by students from all over the
country and even overseas.
 Due to demand from every state these have grown to nearly 140.
 23 IIT’s, 32 NIT’s, 4 IIIT’s, 6 IISC’s, 7 AIIM’s, 15 NLU’s, 14 IIM’s, 15 NIFT’s and 39 other
institutions of National Importance. All these institutes are Autonomous, of University
level and have been set up by an act of Parliament.
 All these national institutes are funded by the Central Govt.
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Higher Education Profile

5.  Other institutions
 There are 11095 stand alone institutions who offer
vocational diplomas. These can be divided into 5 main
categories. 1) Technical diplomas 2) Management 3)
Nursing 4) Teacher training and 5) Others.
 As per the recent survey carried out by MHRD there
are 4923 institutes for teacher training diplomas, 3586
Polytechnics, 2133 are Nursing Institutes, 376 institutes
are offering PGDM and the rest over 100 are centrally
run miscellaneous institutes under various ministries.
Higher Education Profile

6. Challenges
• Large and complex
• Quality
• Industry requirement
• Research needs
• International mobility

7. Large & Complex
• Multiple regulatory agencies
• No Uniformity
• Rigidity

8. Quality of higher education
Firstly, quality means different things to different people.
Secondly, quality is relative to ‘processes’ or ‘outcomes’.
Quality of higher education can be viewed as a challenge from five
different but integrative perspectives:
1. Faculty with knowledge and industry experience
2. Relevance and recency of concepts being taught
3. Use of latest pedagogy including ICT
4. Value for Money
5. Transformative achievement

9. Industry requirements
• Fresh graduates, who join the industries, require six months
to 2 years as gestation period to show their contribution.
• Many a time, they leave the organisation before they start
showing results.
• Industry feels only 15% of their requirements are being filled
and there is a 85% skill gap.

10. Research
• Academia in India was largely focused on teaching rather
than on research.
• Only in the last two decades there has been a move towards
creating an eco-system for motivating research.
• Most of the research that happens in India, unlike in the west
is still largely funded by the Government.

11. International Mobility
Earnings through Global Mobility of Students in Higher Education is
vast
 USA: $ 27 Billion
 UK : £ 8.5 Billion
 Ireland : € 900 Million
 Australia : A$ 19.1 Billion
 New Zealand : NZ $ 2.3 Billion NZ
 Canada: CN $ 5.5 Billion
 INDIA: ₹ 1320 Million (Approx. US $0.2 US $ Billion)
 Students from India however contribute through outward mobility
US$ 8 billion annually approximately.

12. Interventions
• Can focused centers of excellence be a way forward?
• At AIMS Institutes we have 9 focused centers to
overcome some of the challenges and achieved a fair
modicum of success.

13. Focus Centers
•ACR - AIMS Center for Research
•ACE- AIMS Center for Execution Education
•ACIL - AIMS Center for International Liaison
•AEEC - AIMS Entrepreneurship Excellence Center
•ACCS - AIMS Center for Community Service
•ACSD - AIMS Center for Student Development
•ACS – AIMS Center for Sustainability
•ACMC -AIMS Center for Management Consulting
•ACPPR – AIMS Center for Corporate Placement & PR

14. AIMS Centre for International Liaison
ACIL focuses on:
 Sharing of best practices
 Faculty movement both ways
 Joint research projects
 Student exchange from Overseas and from India
 Exploring new areas of strategic academic collaboration,
finding new partners for joint degree programs

15. Top Ranked Benefits of Internationalization
(Source: IAU 4th Global Survey 2014)

16. Strategic Academic Alliances
Alliances can be made with similar international institutions for
a) Student mobility
b) Faculty mobility,
c) Institutional mobility
d) Program mobility
Such alliances will promote knowledge sharing, enrichment of
quality in teaching, research and intellectual environment in our
Universities/institutions that result in better knowledge
production and dissemination.
Also, this will provide a conductive atmosphere for future co-
operation with these institutions to set up joint venture
academic alliances, joint degree programs etc.