Indian talent is university challenge

Despite its shared history with India, Britain has lost out to the US in the battle for its students and entrepreneurs. However, London is leading a new charge to attract the brightest brains
….. Britain does not play a preeminent role in educating modern Indians outside India. That role lies firmly with the United States, which in 1871 was just recovering from a civil war and continuing the subjugation of its own indigenous population. Indians still look to Britain for further education, but these days they have the whole world to choose from, ………The US is the No 1 destination for the sub-continent’s best brains, taking in 88,000 Indian students and scholars each year. India is its biggest source of overseas students. British academic institutions – now as expensive, if not more expensive, than their US peers – take fewer than 20,000. ………The British education establishment and the corporate world that it feeds have woken up to this threat. [View Full Article]