Changing Scenarios
D Parimala
HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA AND CHINA: SELECT PERSPECTIVES by Sreemati Chakrabarti Aakar Books, 2018, 199 pp., Rs.795
January 2020, volume 44, No 1

Higher Education in India and China is a collection of scholarly contributions by leading researchers and academia from the University of Delhi and the University of Hong Kong and Macao. Each of the contributions provide a rich understanding about the development of education in India and China in the last three decades and the impact created in the lives of people by the changing educational scenarios of the respective countries. A perspective building aim is clearly visible as a running thread across the writings of each of the authors. They have used both amalgamation and comparison as their tools of analysis to articulate their views on education and its impact in the two countries, with the larger focus centering on how to improve higher education and its allied consequences of social and economic disparities, imbalances and growing unemployment.

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