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Affordability at higher education levels continues to be India's Achille's heel

Higher Education Crisis in India – Affordability Challenge In this wonderful piece, Atul Thakur writes about why most Indians cannot afford higher education without aid. The appropriate graphics detailing demographics, the financial pressure on students to either exit or wait for some form of scholarship, grant, loan or [...]

IISc, BLR Makes it to Top 20 in Times (THE) Global Emerging Economies' Univ Ranking 2020

Emerging Economies’ University Rankings 2020: IISc, BLR in Top 20 The Times Higher Education World Emerging Economies' University Rankings 2020 have had China, India and Brazil with most number of representations. China with 81, India with 56 and Brazil with 46 Universities listed in the top rankings. However Russia, Taiwan [...]

IIT D and IIT M break into World Top 50 University Rankings: QS World Rankings 2020

IIT D and IIT B Enter Top 50 World Univ Ranking For the first time, IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai have broken into the Top 50 World University Ranking by subject in Engineering and Technology categories, securing 47th and 44th rank respectively. Also for the first time, 5 Indian universities have [...]

What will make Indian Universities world-class?

What will make Indian Universities World-class? It appears the GoI is working on an overhaul of the higher education institutes to put them on a path to becoming world-class instiitutes. The first step was a definition of the New Education Policy in 2019 and taking off [...]

Big Trends in Global higher Education sector

Big Trends in global Higher Education Sector The global Higher Education sector is a very large and diverse market with each its own challenges, specialities and uniqueness, depending on target courses and establishment. However it is not diffuclt to identity the classic big trends that are shaping [...]

The Future of India's USD 2Bil. edtech Opportunity Report 2020: Datalabs, by Inc42

The Future of India’s $2 Bn Edtech Opportunity Report 2020: DataLabs, by Inc42 From $247 Mil in 2017, the opportunity in India's Online Ed Tech market is estimated to soar to $1.96 Bn in 2021. Key driving factors include rapid adoption of mobile phones and cheap internet, rising disposable incomes and the ever-growing [...]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will make Deep In-roads into Education Sector

AI is Making Deep in-roads into Education Sector While on the face of it, it may not be very obvious, Aritifical Intelligence (AI) is making high impacting deep changes in Edcucation sector. As online edcucation delivery through MOOC s(massively online open courses) became a realistic business model in [...]

TN Engg Colleges Shift to Offer Arts & Science Degrees
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30 Engg Colleges in TN apply for Shifting to Arts and Science College The downturn in Engineering and Tech colleges in the state of TN is so severe that already 30 engineering colleges have applied for conversion to institutes offering Arts and Science degrees for the coming year 2020-21. Declining interest in Engg [...]

Australian Delegation Visiting India: Want to create world-class University System here
Australian Delegation in New Delhi Feb 24 to discuss creation of a world-class University system here.

Australian Delegation Visiting to Explore Creating World Class Higher Ed System On the back of the Indian Govt. Union Budget clearly laying out the opening of FDI and strong foreign university engagement in Indian education sector especially with Higher Education, the Australian Delegation's visit instills a lot of confidence. This delegation [...]

FDI in Higher Education Sector in India: Budget 2020
As per the Union Budget 2020, FDI opens up a plethora of new opportunities for foreign universtities to engage with Indian higher education sector. More details are being worked out on modalities but the path is now open and clear.

FDI Boost in Higher Education Sector: India 2020 Budget The Union Budget 2020 of Indian government announced Feb 01 had a huge allocation to the Education Sector. About Rs 99.3k Crores (about USD 1.3bil) roughly, this is a massive markup and brings higher education sector into the limelight. The [...]