India's Knowledge Commission Calls for a Major Overhaul of Higher-Education System

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

New Delhi

India needs to increase its number of universities to 1,500 by 2015, from 350 now, an advisory body said in a report released to the public on Friday. Such an increase is necessary to raise the proportion of 18- to 24-year-olds entering higher-education institutions to at least 15 percent, up...