Saturday 22 October 2011

Rutgers jumps at opportunity to grow in India


India is planning a massive expansion of its college and university system in the coming decade, and Rutgers University is trying to get a piece of the action.
"We see this as an opportunity to really go to the next level and position Rutgers as one of the leading U.S. universities in India just as they are rethinking their education marketing," said David Finegold, Rutgers’ senior vice president for strategic growth initiatives.

Among other things, the center will provide expert support to India’s "national skill development strategy," a component of the Knowledge Initiative that President Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced jointly last year.
At the start of the first United States-India higher education summit in Washington last week, Rutgers announced it has formed a joint center with a Mumbai university, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
"The number of children going to college will increase from 16 million to about 45 million in the next 10 years," Kapil Sibal, the Indian minister of human resource development, told academic and business leaders from the two countries at an opening reception of the higher education summit on Oct. 12.
"If 604 universities are now serving 16 million children, we’ll need another 1,000 universities in the next 10 years," and another 50,000 colleges, Sibal said.
"That’s the kind of scale we’re talking about."

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