Volume : 2, Issue : 1, January - 2013

Globalization and its impact on Indian Higher Education: Promises and Perils

Dr. Shazli Hasan Khan

Abstract :

Globalization is the internationalization, liberalization and integration of world economies with the avowed objective of maximising benefits for every member country coming under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Higher education is one of the services where GATS has operational authority. Globalization is a process of integrating economy, education, culture, technology and even governance. India being a signatory to GATS, is obliged to open its higher education sector to foreign education providers. India, on its part, is authority to export its higher education. India’s student population is huge and growing steadily. Many of our students go aoad for higher education and spend lots of money to acquire foreign digress. With globalization, India will attempt to ing the best foreign universities here and due to competition with these foreign education providers our own institutions will strive to raise their quality and standard of education. This will on one hand, reduce the charm of going aoad, and may attract foreign students to our shores, on the other. But all this would require reforms in our education system, increased use of information technology, and more emphasis on research and developmental activities.