June 17, 2009

News Analysis: What Recent Moves in India Could Mean for American Higher Education

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By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN and KARIN FISCHER

Kapil Sibal, India's new minister in charge of higher education, might actually do what many Indians have long hoped for: shake up the country's dysfunctional higher-education system. He may also do what many Americans have wished for: open India up to foreign universities.

In the two and a half weeks since he was appointed following national elections, Mr. Sibal has established lines of

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