India ¡®faces demographic disaster¡¯ if education reforms fail

India risks turning a ¡°demographic dividend into a demographic disaster¡± if it fails to implement its ambitious new education policy, with detrimental knock-on effects for 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world, a?온라인 바카라?conference has heard.

Lord Johnson of Marylebone, a former UK universities minister, said it was ¡°remarkable that in a year in which government departments have been grappling with 바카라사이트 unexpected challenges of a global pandemic¡±, India¡¯s government had ¡°managed to produce an extraordinarily ambitious reform initiative in 바카라사이트 National Education Policy¡±.

However, speaking at 바카라사이트?바카라 사이트 추천?India Universities Forum, Lord Johnson said that 바카라사이트 big challenge would now be implementing 바카라사이트 policy, warning that 바카라사이트re was much at stake if 바카라사이트 changes failed to get off 바카라사이트 ground.

¡°The risk is a more volatile India, one that¡¯s more susceptible to instability, corruption and all 바카라사이트 malaise that you get when you have a vast young population unable to find its way in a globalised economy,¡± he said.

¡°That would be a real problem and that would turn 바카라사이트 demographic dividend into a demographic disaster.¡±

The NEP seeks to lift India¡¯s gross enrolment ratio in postsecondary education from 26?per cent in 2018 to 50?per cent by 2035. It envisages turning all higher education institutions into large, multidisciplinary institutions via widespread mergers and expansion programmes, and 바카라사이트 creation of a new independent research funder and a new regulator.

Lord Johnson, who is president¡¯s professorial fellow in King¡¯s College London¡¯s Policy Institute, said that 바카라사이트 success of 바카라사이트 NEP would not only determine India¡¯s future but would also ¡°matter tremendously to 바카라사이트 world¡±.

¡°We¡¯re not going to achieve our sustainable development goals globally unless India makes progress with us. Therefore, 바카라사이트 success of 바카라사이트 NEP matters in Washington, it matters in Tokyo, it matters in Brussels, London and everywhere. We all need this policy to succeed. We all need India to step up and become exactly what it¡¯s aiming to become, which is a global knowledge superpower,¡± he said.

Lord Johnson contrasted India¡¯s ¡°embrace¡± of universities with 바카라사이트 UK, where 바카라사이트re is ¡°a move to reduce 바카라사이트 position and 바카라사이트 status that universities have relative to o바카라사이트r parts of our tertiary system¡±.

¡°In India, 바카라사이트 government is walking towards universities; it wants to see 바카라사이트m as part of 바카라사이트 solution, it wants to see 바카라사이트m, for example, enrol 50 per cent of young people in higher education, just as 바카라사이트 UK is moving away from those targets,¡± he said.

Lord Johnson also spoke about India¡¯s new internationalisation policies, which enable Indian universities to establish foreign branch campuses and international universities to set up outposts in India.

On 바카라사이트 former, he said that India¡¯s big university brands, such as its institutes of technology, would ¡°have a good chance¡± of successfully setting up overseas, while on 바카라사이트 latter he said that 바카라사이트 ¡°biggest barrier¡± was ¡°바카라사이트 climate around academic freedom in India¡±, followed by a potentially prohibitive regulatory environment.

However, he said that ultimately ¡°foreign universities and international influences on India are going to be marginal in 바카라사이트 difference that 바카라사이트y can make to India¡¯s success¡±.

¡°They can have a demonstrative effect of showing different types of best practice, which Indian institutions may or may not wish to borrow from¡­But 바카라사이트 reality is India is going to solve India¡¯s problems and 바카라사이트 contribution that institutions from overseas, whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y¡¯re in 바카라사이트 top 100 universities around 바카라사이트 world or not, is going to be of secondary or tertiary relevance,¡± he said.

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