Unwieldy bureaucracy, infrastructure challenges and scant funding all hold back innovation in Indian higher education. Philip Altbach and Eldho Mathews assess the country’s current strategies for transforming its universities
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Virginia King explains how university departments can improve staff inductions to help them hang on to new arrivals
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