HE enrolments are growing, but not in line with targets.

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.

This year’s Union Budget has allocated the highest amount ever to the education sector – more than 8 percent over last year’s original budget and 13 percent over the revised and reduced figure. But the pressing question is where is the money going?

Dr John Mathew, Associate Professor and Chair, Division of the Humanities and the Social Sciences at Krea University, explores the University’s ‘interwoven’ mission and the spread of liberal arts-type programmes across the Indian higher education sector.

In the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, the uptake of technology in education around the world has never been faster. While this was certainly forced by necessity it may well prove to be one of few positive pandemic legacies and an opportunity for Indian education.

On January 5, the University Grants Commission (UGC) uploaded an important draft regulation on the ‘Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions (FEHIs) in India’. Feedback, till this month’s end, has been invited before the gazetted notification is issued after incorporating constructive suggestions and improvements.

The NEP recognises at its core that India’s universities will need to change in order to deliver, but there is less agreement about what needs to be done to create a cohort of world-leading institutions here. One option to inform this debate is to compare institutions against their global peers.