Leaders at US-India summit call for more collaboration in higher education

Chronicle of Higher Education : The first US–India Higher Education Summit took place on 13 October on the Georgetown University campus in Washington, DC. American colleges want to partner with Indian universities to develop global research projects, joint-degree programs, and student and faculty exchanges. Whether US institutions are capable of helping meet India’s demand for higher education remains to be seen. The Indian government wants to increase the rate of college attendance among young people from 15% to 30%, and to do that it needs a thousand new universities. Its higher education system currently lacks the financial and talent resources to accomplish that. Proposed solutions range from US institutions building branch campuses in India, to joint-degree programs, to multi-institutional electronic curricula.