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India Education Trends

In recent years students with the highest scores choose forincreasingly popular studies such as health, fashion,

communications or hotel management. Experts expect a rapidlyincreasing demand in these sectors for highly skilled employers. To

this is immediately responded by young people which currentlyfollow secondary or higher education streams for these specific

Indian emerging markets. A recent study by Price WaterhouseCoopers estimated that the media and entertainment sector will grow

over the next five years by nearly 20 percent, and in 2010 an amountof 2 billion will be reached. The fashion industry, design and

production technology for smart textiles will increase in fivefold the

next five or ten years in size.Health care shows a growth of 13 percent per year. New education

developments in India such as medical tourism, telemedicine, andthe rapid emergence of exclusive clinics and hospitals create a large

number of new and particularly well-paid jobs.

There is a mentality change. In the eighties many took additional

education to increase salary opportunities and status. The currentgeneration is more of taking risk. They have no problem with job

hopping, even on the borders of their own disciplines. This changealso has changed the perception of the management company.

Threats to the Succes of Indian Education

The strong Indian market circumstances and the huge salarydifferences between working in government, in business or a

research center makes it difficult for young students to get interestedin science.

Government institutes are still setting the tone. The large differences

in salary make working for a higher education institute not reallyattractive, and the shortages for skilled teachers is still growing

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rapidly. Recently, the Business Line newspaper reported that in2010 a deficit of around 135 thousand technique teachers may be

expected. Moreover, the lack of scientific quality, most institutions

(especially private) a scientific job is little challenging.

Businesses and private institutions offer salaries which, even forsomeone who sees teaching as a vocation, can almost not be refused.

For example private hospitals are charging fees that are 50 timeshigher than those in public hospitals. A university professor told that

his graduate students get offers from the private sector which aresometimes ten times higher than his own salary, and then ask him

what to do. This is a development which, as in many western

countries, makes it increasingly difficult to make young peopleinterested in a scientific career.

International position

In national surveys on the quality of science in India appear theINIs consistently in the top of the university rankings. Back to

Indian standards they are in the absolute top. The Times HigherEducation Supplement, however, placed the IITs in the past atnumber 50 on the World University Rankings, and place 36 as

measured by overall scientific position.

If only the position in the field of technology is taken into account

they are in third place. Not a bad score. In the competitive ShanghaiJiao Tong Universitys Academic Ranking of World Universities

only IIT Kharagpur appears in the top 500 (!).

The fact that relatively few Indian universities are publishinginternationally recognized research papers, few are cited, and only avery limited amount have social science faculties, declares together

with small numbers of international students the modest positions ininternational university ranking lists. The pressure from the Indian

government for more and better research is therefore noticeably

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increasing. The support from Indian Government are linked tosuccess, whereas others measured by the international rating.