Foreign univs express greater interest in partnering with Indian institutions

ON an average, over 11 lakh Indian students go abroad annually to higher education. However, only a paltry figure of around 49,000 international students arrive in India to study.

- S LALITHA @New Delhi

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 gave a massive push to address this imbalance, and the efforts have started bearing fruit.

With Australia openly announcing a cap on international students and the UK imposing immigration restrictions on foreign students, the flexibility given by NEP to foreign universities to set up shop in India has come as a boon for universities abroad as well as Indian students who want to pursue degrees in international institutions, say top officials of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU). The International Division of the AIU is in the forefront to promote foreign education in India.