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As one of the three largest in the world, India’s system of higher education plays an important role in the global architecture of higher education, supplying a large number of students and academic staff to universities around the world. The issues Indian higher education confronts are therefore of potential interest to scholars, policy analysts, university leaders and employers around the world.

To India itself, higher education is critical to the country’s participation in the global knowledge economy, and its potential to become a leading center of knowledge creation and dissemination. Accordingly, India is now pursuing a vigorous program of reform that has given rise to a whole raft of complex issues. These issues are widely debated within India, but needed also is a global discussion of these issues, as India could learn a great deal from similar reforms elsewhere.

This Global Forum is therefore designed to stimulate conversations around policy developments in Indian higher education. It contains both information, through relevant lists of reports, books and articles, and opinions, with reviews and, more importantly, short ‘think pieces’, to which wide-ranging responses are invited. The Forum thus seeks to establish an international network of scholars interested in varied aspects of Indian higher education.

The Forum has been developed under the auspices of Australia-India Institute, with the support of a number of institutions, both in India and elsewhere. It is directed by Fazal Rizvi, a professor in Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia, with the help of Research Fellow Radhika Gorur. Please don’t hesitate to contact them with your ideas on this Forum.

Fazal Rizvi

Fazal Rizvi is a Professor in Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Born in India, Fazal was educated in India, Australia and the UK where he received his PhD from Kings College London. He has written extensively on issues of identity and culture in transnational contexts; public policy in education, and theories of globalization and the internationalization of higher education. His most recent book is: Globalizing Education Policy (Routledge 2010).

Radhika Gorur

Radhika Gorur is a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. Born and brought up in India, she has also lived and worked in Nigeria, Oman and Australia. She has a Master’s degree from Michigan State University and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on education policy, with a particular interest in evidence based policy, and more generally in how policy ideas evolve, circulate and stabilise.

 

 

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