NITI Aayog Releases Higher Education Internationalisation Report
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Background
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What Changed
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BEFORE: Funding for the internationalization of domestic universities relied primarily on limited institutional budgets and standard government grants. NOW: The report proposes the 'Bharat Vidya Kosh', a dedicated sovereign wealth fund to strategically finance higher education globalization.
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BEFORE: India functioned primarily as a source country for international students, with a highly disproportionate 28:1 outward-to-inward mobility ratio. NOW: A structured multi-decade roadmap is established to actively balance this ratio and transform India into a net exporter of educational services by 2047.
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BEFORE: Human capital policies mostly focused on domestic capacity building to prevent brain drain. NOW: The policy shifts towards active 'Brain Gain' and international integration, aiming to leverage frameworks like the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in education.
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Practice Questions
Q1
With Reference ToWith reference to the NITI Aayog report on the 'Internationalisation of Higher Education in India', consider the following statements: 1. It proposes the creation of 'Bharat Vidya Kosh', a sovereign wealth fund to support the globalization of Indian higher education. 2. The report highlights that India currently hosts more international students than the number of Indian students studying abroad. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?