How Cambridge wants to lure Indians away from US varsities

LONDON: While the new British universities have benefited from the influx of Indian students, older universities like Cambridge, which has had a long relationship with India, has been losing out to the United States. “We have fewer Indian students coming to us then in the past because our competitors in the USA offer more scholarships and funding, and with their determined efforts to get students more of them are going there instead of coming to us,” ……….lately the name Cambridge is no longer enough, because Indians don’t think of Britain as the first place to go,………. “At undergraduate level we take very few international students, and at postgraduate level we have very high standards, we are a difficult university to get in,…..In order to bring Cambridge back in to the Indian student radar the Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richards has planned her first visit to India in January next year. ……….attend the 50th anniversary celebrations ………. to meet the university alumni as well as hold a series of workshops with them and other industrial partners.[View Full Article]