India shelves branch campus ‘pipe dream’ for domestic ‘eminence’

Foreign providers plan was misguided, but domestic selective funding option brings huge challenges, say experts

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August 24, 2017

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Beast of burden: India’s plan to improve higher education quality will have to overcome bureaucracy and inadequate funding

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