January 26, 2007

Commission Calls for Overhaul of Higher Education in India

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

India must increase its number of universities to 1,500 by 2015, from 350 now, an advisory body said in a report released to the public this month.

That growth is necessary to raise the proportion of Indian 18- to 24-year-olds entering higher education to at least 15 percent, up from 7 percent, which is only half the average for Asian countries, according to the report from the National Knowledge Commission.

There is a "quiet crisis in higher education in India that runs deep,"

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