India's Effort to Join 21st-Century Higher Education

Authors

  • Philip Altbach
  • N. Jayaram

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2009.54.8415

Keywords:

Academic Culture, Academic Profession, Accountability, International Development, Research University, Asia, India, world class universities, investment in education

Abstract

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.

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Published

2009-01-07

How to Cite

Altbach, P., & Jayaram, N. (2009). India’s Effort to Join 21st-Century Higher Education. International Higher Education, (54). https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2009.54.8415

Issue

No. 54: Winter 2009

Section

South Asia

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