Indian Management Institutes Are Free to Expand Abroad

The Indian government said on Friday that it had no objection “in principle” to allowing the Indian Institutes of Management, the country’s elite public graduate-management schools, to expand internationally, the Indian Express reported. The Telegraph reported that the institutes also expressed concern that foreign institutions might poach their professors. The decision, made under Kapil Sibal, the minister in charge of higher education, reverses a 2006 decision made by his predecessor.