India Higher Education Research Network’s (IHERN) flagship research conference, Indian Higher Education Research Conference (IHERC) will be taking place on 21-22 November, 2025 at R&I Park, IIT Delhi.
The conference will serve as a platform for presenting high-quality research of relevance to Indian higher education, and also for discussing practice and policy issues relating to Indian higher education.
IHERC 2025 will be at the intersection of various scholarly fields, including but not limited to higher education studies, the empirical context of higher education in India, and the practice and policy of higher education in India. The conference expects to have participation from the global scholarly community, with interests in Indian higher education.
It will feature keynote speakers:
- Professor V. Ramgopal Rao, Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani, India
- Professor Fazal Rizvi, University of Melbourne, Australia
Key dates:
- Deadline for abstract submission: 24 July 2025
- Acceptance decision by: 21 August, 2025
- Registration to open: 1 September, 2025
- Deadline for full draft paper submission: 22 October 2025
- Conference dates: 21-22 November, 2025