India will be promoted as a global destination providing premium education at affordable costs to help restore its status as “Vishwa Guru”, said Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar.
Laying out the government’s strategy to promote a key recommendation of the National Education Policy 2020 on “internationalisation” of higher education that would offer two-way mobility for students i.e. Indian students going abroad to study and foreign students coming into India, the Minister said subjects such as “Indology, Indian languages, AYUSH systems of medicine, yoga, arts, music, history, culture... as well as quality residential facilities and on-campus support would be fostered to attain this goal of global quality standards, attract greater numbers of international students, and achieve the goal of internationalisation at home.”
Mr. Sarkar was speaking at an event organised by the Services Export Promotion Council under the Ministry of Commerce. Its Chairman, Sunil H. Talati, while addressing the gathering said that the services sector contributed 55% of the total exports, and by 2023 the Council aimed to take this to 75% of exports for which the export of education would have an important contribution. He said that from a trade perspective it was important to increase the influx of overseas students and forex to reach the target of $350 billion export by March 2023.
