An anti-immigrant sentiment alongside a crackdown on ‘wokeism’ in the US coincides with the Big Four of foreign education starting to shut the gates. For Indian students looking to go abroad, these are the worst of times.
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As study-abroad options dwindle for Indian students, a good question to ask is what the state of India’s higher education sector is. The answer, I’m afraid, is not pretty.
A mix of government facilitation, favourable location and rising student demand is seeing global institutions making a beeline for the region.
For a country aspiring to be a superpower, with more than 250 million children in schools, India’s reluctance to participate in an international student assessment study is confounding.