Hidden Reefs Beneath the Rising Island: An Analysis of Higher Education Expansion in India

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Abstract

This study aims to examine the process of the expansion of higher education scale in India, reveal the structural contradictions behind its rapid expansion, and help major developing countries explore reasonable talent cultivation models. Although India has become the world's second-largest higher education system, there is a significant imbalance between its scale expansion and industrial structure, resulting in severe unemployment of senior professionals, serious brain drain brings about a "talent trap" situation, and the quality of higher education is ill. The disconnection between higher education and the industrial structure, the lag in discipline setting and the imbalance in the horizontal structure are the main reasons for the low efficiency of higher education.

Author

• Mingyang Guo, Xiamen University