President Pranab Mukherjee in various speeches over the last few months has repeatedly referred to the idea that India can't be a world power without a world-class university. As the NDA government works on a new National Education Policy focusing on employability, academicians and the Opposition have accused the government of 'saffronising' education and planting personalities sympathetic to their ideological position as heads of higher institutes of learning. On Dialogues, we dissect what challenges Indian higher education faces right now, and how to confront them.
