Beyond Borders
Expanding Technical Education in India
OSA Fellow Lecturer Stephen Rand shares his thoughts on India’s new higher education initiatives created to stoke the country’s technological progress.
The author in Jaipur. [S. Rand]
India’s progress toward becoming a global economic power-player has generated an unprecedented need for a larger, highly trained workforce of engineers, scientists and technicians. In response to this need, the country is ushering in a number of new higher-education initiatives—including additions to the established India Institutes of Technology (IIT) system, private universities and training centers—as well as implementing unique approaches to support these efforts.
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