by the National Center for Policy Analysis
Digital technologies have the potential to dramatically transform Indian higher education. A new model built around massive open online courses (MOOCs) that are developed locally and combined with those provided by top universities abroad could deliver higher education on a scale and at a quality not possible before, says Pawan Agarwal, an adviser for higher education for the Indian government’s Planning Commission. University enrollment in India is huge and growing. It surpassed the United States’ enrollment in 2010 and became second only to China that year. Every day in India 5,000 students enroll at a university and 10 new institutions open their doors. At more than 3 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), India’s spending on higher education is one of the highest in the world. Yet per-student spending is among the lowest. While recent expansion has widened access to universities, it has further reduced per-student spending and aggravated already acute faculty shortages. As a result, quality has declined.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=23420
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