New Delhi, July 11 -- India's higher education ecosystem has undergone a fundamental transformation making it flexible, interdisciplinary, inclusive and innovation driven, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Thursday.
Inaugurating two-day Vice-Chancellors' Conf-erence of Central Univer-sities in Gujarat's Kevadia, Pradhan also said the total student enrolment has touched 4.46 crore, a 30 per cent increase since 2014-15.
"The female enrolment has grown by 38 per cent and female GER (gross enrolment ratio) now exceeded male GER, PhD enrolment has almost doubled and female PhD scholars have grown by 136 per cent, GER for Scheduled Tribes has increased by 10 percentage points, for SCs by over eight points," Pradhan said.
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