TS ICET 26 May 2023 Shift 2 Solved Paper

Q.No : 186 - 190
Comprehension
  While some have rejected the government's initiative to set up foreign universities in India calling it a predatory practice, others have embraced it as quality-enhancing step. Missing from the conversation are the economic aspects. It appears that the assumptions that Indian education market is attractive and would also lead to relatively affordable, high-quality education are taken for granted. Ground realities compel a reassessment. Two promising numbers drive the government's assumptions. First, as the Ministry of Education recently clarified in Parliament the number of Indian students going abroad increased from 4.4 lakh in 2021 to 7.5 lakh in 2022. The calculation is that Indian market is an enticing market even if foreign universities can tap into a fraction of this outward flow. Other reinforcing data are the enrolment figures. The all-India survey on Higher Education estimates that 4.13 crore students are enrolled in higher education. If the policy target is to achieve a 50% enrolment ratio by 2035 from the current 27.3%, the intake of students will almost double in 15 years. Much of this is expected to happen in private institutions which currently accommodate only about a quarter of enrolment.