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Sunday, January 5, 2020

Short Article: How China's higher education development outpaced India's

Title:
How China's higher education development outpaced India's

Author:
Alan Ruby

Published:
The World University Rankings, 5 January 2020

From the article:
Politicians and policy analysts like to make comparisons, and India and China are often set side by side. Both have large populations and are large land masses; both became "new" nation states about 70 years ago; both pursued five-year plans and maintained relatively closed economies until recently.

When it comes to higher education, however, the differences are stark and mostly the result of diverse strategies pursued by each nation over the past two decades to answer huge demand for tertiary education.

To read this article:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/how-chinas-higher-education-development-outpaced-indias