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India: A World-Class Country Without World-Class Higher Education

INDIA IS RUSHING HEADLONG TOWARD ECONOMIC SUCCESS and modernization, counting on high-tech industries such as information technology and biotechnology to propel the nation to prosperity. India's recent announcement that it would no longer produce unlicensed inexpensive generic pharmaceuticals bowed to the realities of the World Trade Organization while at the same time challenging the domestic drug industry to compete with the multinational firms. Unfortunately, India's weak higher education sector constitutes the Achilles' heel of this strategy. India's systematic disinvestment in higher education in recent years has yielded an academic structure characterized by mediocrity, producing ...

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