June 4, 2009
India Appoints Reform-Minded Official to Oversee Higher Education
New Delhi
The new government seated after the recent national elections in India has ousted the reform-resistant minister in charge of higher education and replaced him with Kapil Sibal, a strong proponent of allowing foreign universities into India and of promoting private investment in higher education
His predecessor, Arjun Singh, was often publicly criticized, even by members of his own party, for his intransigence on reforms but was kept on, for political reasons, despite his
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