Reforming Indian Higher Education, A Step in the Right Direction
The much-talked about Yashpal Committee report on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education released in June, 2009, comes as a boon to India’s ailing higher education sector. Its key recommendations - having one regulating body for all higher education, opening doors to foreign universities, encouraging interdisciplinary approaches, promoting research along with teaching and the need to promote vocational education - are being dubbed as significant attempts to uplift a wilting higher education structure. With the implementation of these recommendations, the face of Indian higher education, and the education sector more broadly, will hopefully be on the path to significant improvement.
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Counting International Student Numbers in Non-English Language Destinations
In the first of this two-part series, we took a look behind the mobility statistics reported by the top five English-language higher education receiving countries. In this second installment we take a look at the top five non-English language destinations: the agencies responsible for reporting mobility statistics, how they define international students, and what the latest data are showing.
