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.