China vs. India - a battle of the brains

Mumbai_2In this brave new world of knowledge-driven economies, it is a battle of the brains. And in perhaps the biggest battle of them all—China versus India—a winner is emerging.

If you guessed India, I’m sorry, you get the consolation prize. China is far outstripping India in the race to expand tertiary enrollment. Data collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicate that in 2006, China achieved a gross enrollment ratio of 22 percent, compared to only 12 percent in India.

Granted, raw numbers don’t take into account variations in the quality of education. Nevertheless, India is clearly a laggard at 12 percent—and perhaps even less than that, according to data from the Program for Research on Private Higher Education.

What could explain India’s poor marks? One part of the explanation is India’s ambivalent relationship with the private sector as a provider of higher education. While private higher education has grown rapidly in India, both in terms of number of institutions and enrollments, many barriers still remain. According to the Program for Research on Higher Education, there is

...a huge problem for countries like India where conviction remains widespread
that education is a “public good” and should be “free.”

Coupled with this opposition to tuition is ambivalence toward the outside world. Foreign universities have taken steps to enter the Indian market, but the legal environment is vague, at best. Opponents of private education (and of foreign providers) raise legitimate concerns about guaranteeing the quality of education provided. Yet it seems that this could be dealt with appropriately through various quality assurance mechanisms, either through university associations or government regulation.

The following are questions I will try to address in future posts: how should India expand access to higher education? What role can the private sector play? How should India deal with foreign providers of education? In other words, how can India compete in the battle of the brains?

True that 'India is clearly a laggard at 12 percent' but our education quality is the best in the world.
We have the best education system in the world. people from various unversities tie up with their Indian counterparts and pick up many policies in the indian education to their benefit.
India has a added benefit that we have so many launguages ,which makes it more easy to students to accept one more laungage ,English for learning.
English makes us stand at the world front unlike China

True that 'India is clearly a laggard at 12 percent' but our education quality is the best in the world.
We have the best education system in the world. people from various unversities tie up with their Indian counterparts and pick up many policies in the indian education to their benefit.
India has a added benefit that we have so many launguages ,which makes it more easy to students to accept one more laungage ,English for learning.
English makes us stand at the world front unlike China.

http://www.xlr8india.co.cc/2009/03/s...-material.html

Indians are talented, multitasking & easily grasp anything. We proud to be an Indian.

Have you watched news clips BBC and a few other English channels..Whenever they interview an Indian or ask for his comments, they have to display what he or she speaks at the bottom of the TV screen. Even though he speaks English. !
( Listeners cannot understand the pronunciation ! - so much about Indian english )

The bulk of the people who pass out from Indian universities, have little knowledge in the work place environment. Eg: in a Japanese or western production environment.
The Indian student learn a lot of theory, but at the work place, he has hardly any knowledge to modern production or process technologies and skills.

At the end of the day, employers pay salaries to the employee for his worth to the company..not for the degree paper he has. That is the fact in the real world.

actually......its only a matter of time till india catches up.....

both are wrong south koreans are now winning the battle