Mis-Educating India

The 2018 report of Science and Engineering (S&E) Indicators is expected any day now at the time of writing this letter. In anticipation I revisited the 2016 report of Science and Engineering Indicators (henceforth SEI 2016). I was intrigued by the section titled: ‘Science and Technology in the World Economy/Workers with S&E Skills’, where a nation’s innovative capacity and economic competitiveness are linked to the number of workers with S&E skills. To enable this, governments have made increased access to S&E-related post-secondary education a high priority.