Open AccessIndia's Effort to Join 21st-Century Higher Education
Author(s) -
Philip G. Altbach,
Neethu Jayaram
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2372-4501
pISSN - 1084-0613
DOI - 10.6017/ihe.2009.54.8415
Subject(s) - higher education , join (topology) , language change , political science , plague (disease) , field (mathematics) , focus (optics) , class (philosophy) , economic growth , public relations , business , public administration , economics , geography , computer science , art , physics , mathematics , literature , archaeology , combinatorics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , optics
India is poised to invest into the creation of many new universities, toward the goal of having 30 "world-class" universities capable of competing on the global academic playing field. Many problems currently plague the Indian higher educational system (an underpaid professoriate, institutional corruption, lack of focus on research, etc.) and must be carefully examined and addressed before investments are made, or these lofty goals may not succeed.