India vs China: Economic Growth and Higher Education

So is India doing enough to catch up with China? In 1995 the Indian government had introduced a bill in the parliament to allow foreign universities to operate in the country. However, the Foreign Education Providers Bill, the succeeding bill to the 1995 bill, is still lying in the parliament even after almost two decades.

With India’s inability to rapidly build higher-education infrastructure, and refusal to let foreign universities in, the situation is grim. But, technology is helping India as American universities, like Harvard and MIT, have decided to put their courses online for free. Students can now access the internet and can take a class taught by international lecturers in big universities. The availability of free online content is a boon for Indian higher education.

If the availability of free online content is harnessed, a lot can be solved in India as many students in rural and urban areas can have access to world class education, which in turn can help in the economic growth of the nation.

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