India and Education

India and Education

India, being a developing nation, struggles with challenges in its primary education and strives to reach 100% literacy. Universal Compulsory Primary Education, with its challenges of keeping poor children in school and maintaining quality of education in rural areas, has been difficult to achieve Kerala is the only Indian state to reach this goal so far.All levels of education in India, from primary to higher education, are overseen by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of Higher Education (India) and Department of School Education and Literacy), and heavily subsidized by the Indian government, though there is a move to make higher education partially self-financing. The Indian Government is considering to allow 100% foreign direct investment in Higher Education.

There are broadly four stages of school education in India, namely primary, upper primary, secondary and Senior secondary.Overall, schooling lasts 12 years, following the "10+2 pattern". However, there are considerable differences between the various states in terms of the organizational patterns years of schooling, mainly due to the existence of various State Education Boards.

Some useful educational links:

Management Institutes in India
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
National Institutes of Technology
List of Indian Institute of Technology
Engineering Courses In India
Medical Courses In India
Medical Colleges in India
Medical Admissions in India
MCI Regulations 2000
TOP MEDICAL COLLEGES OF INDIA
Top 100 Engineering Colleges in India
Education in India