Debate on potential to host several higher education hubs

By Alya Mishra. With Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia and, more recently, Sri Lanka and Bhutan aspiring to become global education hubs in Asia, India’s potential to host several hubs – and the challenges it would face in doing this – has become a point of recent debate.
With more than 600 universities and 31,000 colleges, and the third largest student enrolment after China and the United States, India has what it takes to become a global education hub, argue experts.
But lack of a comprehensive national policy, bureaucratic red tape and the slow pace of higher education reform may prevent India from achieving this. Read more...