While India added teachers, Telangana lost nearly 7,400 of them in a decade amid rising student enrolments
Data from the AISHE 2023-24 report reveals that Telangana has experienced an 8% decline in higher education teachers over the last decade, despite a national increase. The state also saw a reduction in the number of colleges, even as student enrolment and the Gross Enrolment Ratio continued to rise.
Why it matters
The widening gap between student enrolment and faculty availability threatens the quality of higher education and increases the pupil-teacher ratio in the state.
Just after a decade of creation of a separate Telangana, that was backed by university student protests, the State has fewer teachers employed in higher education, data from All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2023-24 shows.
This at a time when nationally, the number of teachers in higher education has gone up. At the time of the formation of Telangana there were 91,932 teachers in the State in the higher education system. Now, the number has dropped to 84,568. Or, nearly 7,400 fewer teachers marking a dip of 8%. While nationally, there has been a rise in number of teachers by 17.6%.
Even teachers employed on contract basis, known as temporary teachers, has seen a similar 10% drop from 3250 to 2907 in 2023-24.
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