In India, students aplenty but a lag in quality
If half of India’s universities were to shut down today, the world would continue unaffected by such a mass closure, Devesh Kapur, director of the Center for the Advanced Studies of India, told an audience of about 15 yesterday in Luce Hall.
The student population in India has grown significantly since the nation gained independence in 1947, but the quality of Indian education is shamefully lagging behind the rest of the world, Kapur said at the talk, entitled “Higher Education in India.” The low quality of India’s universities results from higher education’s status as one of the...
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