February 28th, 2020 It is estimated that over the next 5 years, India’s youth population will continue to increase. This means that the current education system will prove inadequate in accommodating the age group of 18-22. For this reason and those shown below, India will continue to play a dominant role as a source for […]
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8 Reasons Why India Will Be The Next Economic Opportunity for the Education Industry
August 16th, 2019 India is posed to be the next source for economic opportunity for the education industry. Here are a few reasons why: With a population of over 1.3 billion, about half are less than 20 years old. In 2018, India’s education sector generated US$ 91.7 billion in revenues (source: India Brand Equity Foundation) […]
Latest News on India’s Regulatory Bodies: UGC and AICTE
August 10th, 2018 If you hadn’t heard already, until recently, India’s government was considering an ambitious plan, proposed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, to merge the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the two regulatory bodies, into a single higher education regulator. This […]
Rhythm Planet’s Favorite World Music Releases of 2017
January 18th, 2018 Now that we have 2017 behind us, we’d like to take a look at the countries in the African continent, in Latin America and India and learn a little more about some of them. We realize traveling to these destinations may not be possible, but we can agree that one way of […]
Cheating in School: A Family Affair in India
March 26th, 2015 Photo Credit: NDTV For this week’s blog, I’m going to keep it short and sweet and share with you the true story of hundreds of parents and family members endangering their own lives by scaling walls outside the examination hall in a town in India. No, these parents weren’t risking their lives […]
The Brief Shelf Life of India’s Four-Year Bachelor’s Degree
October 16th, 2014 In India, the bachelor’s degree in arts and sciences has been typically a three-year program patterned after the British system. Here in the U.S. a few international credential evaluation professionals have been recognizing the three-year bachelor’s degree from India as equivalent to the U.S. four-year degree. At ACEI, our position has been […]
INDIA: The 2014 Millennium Development Goals Report
September 4th, 2014 In 2000, at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, all 189-member nations (today the UN has 193 members) committed to help meet ambitious development targets across categories such as primary education, nutrition, health, mortality, sanitation and others. The new Millennium Development Goals Report 2014 examines the latest progress made towards achieving […]
Understanding the Institutes of Chartered Accountants in India and Pakistan
April 11, 2013 For institutions in the United States, accounting credentials from India and Pakistan can be especially difficult to interpret. Typically, comparative education researchers and credential evaluators in the U.S. seek to determine the comparability of foreign studies to domestic equivalents based on several criteria including: • admission requirements for the academic program in […]
How I Discovered Bollywood
April 4, 2013 My first experience with Bollywood music came with a couple of cd’s back in the 1980s called Golden Voices from the Silver Screen, on a cool UK label called Globe Style. Vol 2 featured songs from the TV series Movie Mahal; the first volume featured classics from Lata Mangeshkar, her kid sister […]