India's Prime Minister Assails Universities as Below Average and 'Dysfunctional'

India's prime minister revealed on Friday that almost two-thirds of the nation's universities and 90 percent of its degree-granting colleges are rated as below average and that university curricula are typically not synchronized with the needs of employers or job seekers.
The prime minister, Manmohan Singh, also criticized faltering levels of enrollment. "In almost half the districts in the country, higher-education enrollments are abysmally low," Mr. Singh said in an address at a 150th-anniversary celebration at the University of Mumbai. "Less than 50 percent of secondary-school students continue into college education in any form," he said. [View Full Article - Subscription - The Chronicle]