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Universities plan offshoots in India to cash in on demand
The Guardian
|February 08, 2025
UK universities are aiming to leave their financial woes at home by seeking their fortune in India, in a higher education version of a gold rush towards a market with more than 40 million students.
The University of Southampton has been first off the blocks, announcing that it is opening in Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi, and is now enrolling students for what it calls "the first campus of its kind in India".
But others are not far behind. Prof Chris Day, Newcastle University's vice-chancellor, last week told a British Council event in Delhi: "It almost seems that every day at the moment there's another announcement."
Day said he was "absolutely convinced" of Newcastle's need to open a campus in India, joining the vice-chancellors of Surrey, Coventry and others said to be looking at plans.
Prof Aarti Srivastava, head of the higher education at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration in Delhi, said foreign universities could not open their own campuses in India until 2023, when the rules were changed.
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