• Dr.Srvesh Kumar Mishra1
• DR.ARUN MAITY

The present article aims to throw light on the trend of Higher Education and Disparity in Higher Education in Paschim Medinipur. Higher Education, also known as tertiary education in some countries, refers to all post secondary education including both public and private institutes. Higher education typically comprises under-graduate, post graduate degrees and pre-doctoral and doctoral programs. According to the National policy on Education (NPE) -86 [1, Part V, p.14], ―Higher education provides people with an opportunity to reflect on the critical social, economic, cultural, moral and spiritual issues facing humanity It is instrumental in fostering growth, reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Rather than a tool of social mobility, higher education now reinforces inequality. In recent years all countries have seen a rapid growth in the number of students enrolled in higher education, including students from lower income backgrounds. But the main question is Whether this has created more equal societies? To find out the answer to this question I have ventured to study the variables. To complete the study data & information has been collected from different sources like Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, The Office of the Registrar, in colleges. Three colleges were selected for data collection and different tools like Questionnaire; Survey have been used and above all Chi-Square Test has been used for the data analysis.

Growth, Disparity, Enrolment, Higher Education, Survey

"A STUDY ON THE GROWTH, AND DISPARITY: HIGHER EDUCATION IN PASCHIM MEDINIPUR, WEST BENGAL.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.764-774, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809905.pdf

"A STUDY ON THE GROWTH, AND DISPARITY: HIGHER EDUCATION IN PASCHIM MEDINIPUR, WEST BENGAL.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp764-774, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809905.pdf