Enhancing Foreign Student Inflow a Game-changer in Higher Education

By Achuthsankar S Nair. While lakhs of Indian students study abroad, contributing an estimated Rs 50,000 crores to foreign countries, India attracts less than a lakh foreign students and inflow of well below Rs 1000 crores. What can we do to balance this? A pragmatic action seems to be to attract short-term study-abroad students from west.
Foreign Universities are often perceived as a threat to Indian higher education system, both in terms of economics and academics. An estimated 50,000 crores of rupees is siphoned from India when lakhs of Indian students fly out to study in foreign Universities, every year. More...