Oxford to target students from India

Lord Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, will visit India next month as part of a drive to attract brightest students from the country to help university compete with the better-funded US Ivy League colleges."Globalisation doesn't end at the Thames Valley……….."I hope it will be the first of several visits to India and China over the next few years," he said. "I don't think a serious university can do without a properly thought-through strategy for China and India."………… there were about 17,000 Indian students in Britain, compared with nearly 80,000 in the US.He said, "we have to fight very hard to keep our position in the world league table to stay up there with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT." [View Full Article]