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The irony of abundance underlines our modern age. Intelligence has become artificial and concomitantly, the much-eulogized age of information can also be viewed as an age of misinformation. We live in an increasingly globalized world, which is changing very rapidly.
The total amount spent by the central and state governments is closer 4.5% of India’s GDP, not 3% as critics claim.
“Learned men from different cities who desire to quickly acquire renown in the discussion, come here in multitudes to settle their doubts, and then the streams (of their wisdom) spread far and wide,” These were the words of Hiuen Tsang, a Chinese Buddhist monk when he visited Nalanda University during Harsavardhan’s reign.
The long-awaited New Education Policy 2020 is India’s overarching policy framework for the development of the country’s education sector. After receiving over 20,000 comments from stakeholders and spending four years in development, it was finally released in July 2020.
China has long remained the largest market for international student recruitment, a fact that many institutions have relied on at the expense of collaboration in other countries. India may currently send a fraction of the students that China does, but the gap is closing.
The remnants of the caste system and socio-economic divides still hold part of society back in India from achieving academic success.