September 7, 2007

India Plans New Elite Institutes

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

India's university system, which the government has largely neglected in recent years, is now the focus of reform and development, the country's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, said in August, as he announced plans for new higher-education institutions.

To ensure that at least a fifth of Indians age 18 to 24 go to college, up from around a tenth, according to government figures, Mr. Singh announced that the government would set up five Indian Institutes of Science Education and

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