The decline of higher education

A friend's daughter has taken admission in the MA course in the department of linguistics in the University of Delhi. The total annual fee she has paid to the department is about Rs 1,400. This includes examination fees (there are eight papers an MA student in linguistics is required to take at the end of the year), tuition fees (there are about a dozen professors and assistant professors attached to the department and they take regular …showed first 75 words of 902 total…

…showed last 75 words of 902 total…run educational institutions. India Inc too needs to worry about it a little. If the higher education and research infrastructure, built over the years by these universities, collapses for lack of funds, Indian industry too will suffer. We need better roads, larger airports and more efficient sea ports. But we also need financially healthy universities that can carry out research and produce skilled manpower to raise and maintain India's profile in the global knowledge economy.