Everywhere, higher education is faced with great challenges and difficulties related to financing and equity . Literacy rate of India in 2011 was 74.04% while Kerala had the highest literacy rate of 93.91%. Kerala secured achievements in higher education through the expansion of educational institutions, enhancing of literacy activities through libraries and literacy missions. In recent years, a variety of courses have been introduced here to fulfil the increasing demand. But most of these courses are located in some regions of the state. More specifically, there is a wide range of disparities in Kerala’s general and technical education. This disparity might be seen both in the number of institutions as well as in the number of courses. The present study, by making use of secondary data, looks into the regional disparities in higher education in Kerala, focusing on general higher education and technical education at the graduate level.
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