14 novembre 2012
Higher education sector needs more FDI: Deloitte report
It is important for foreign investment and experience to flow in this sector in order to transform the domestic higher education institutions into the world’s top league, Deloitte report says. India, which has the third largest higher education system in the world in terms of enrolments, after China and the US, needs more FDI to meet its target of doubling the gross enrolment ratio (GER) by 2020, a global consultancy firm has said in its report.
“The private sector’s role in the higher education sector has been growing at a rapid pace over the last decade and needs to further expand at an accelerated rate in order to achieve the GER target,” Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India said in a recent report titled ‘Indian Higher Education Sector: Opportunities aplenty, Growth unlimited’. The government has set an aggressive target of achieving 30 per cent GER in higher education by 2020 from the current level of 15 per cent. According to projections, the sector is expected to register a CAGR of 12 per cent from 2008 to reach a size of $31.47 billion.
According to Deloitte, as per the recent estimates by National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUPEA), in order to achieve this target, an additional investment of $190 billion which includes capital expenditure and operating expenditure, has to be made in the next eight years. Read More...
“The private sector’s role in the higher education sector has been growing at a rapid pace over the last decade and needs to further expand at an accelerated rate in order to achieve the GER target,” Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India said in a recent report titled ‘Indian Higher Education Sector: Opportunities aplenty, Growth unlimited’. The government has set an aggressive target of achieving 30 per cent GER in higher education by 2020 from the current level of 15 per cent. According to projections, the sector is expected to register a CAGR of 12 per cent from 2008 to reach a size of $31.47 billion.
According to Deloitte, as per the recent estimates by National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUPEA), in order to achieve this target, an additional investment of $190 billion which includes capital expenditure and operating expenditure, has to be made in the next eight years. Read More...
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