India Higher Education Internationalization:Problems and Possibilities

The Guest Editorial by Lavakare concerning international students makes some important points that I would like to emphasize. India without any question needs clear guidelines and policies – and action – concerning international education, the role of international students in the country, and more broadly, its role in the increasing important and competitive global world of higher education. Indeed, India’s role as an ‘intellectual power’ and its future success in science and technology depends in significant part on the excellence and international connectedness of its higher education sector, and as Lavakare has pointed out, India lags far behind its direct competitors, such as China, as well as the top academic systems in the world.