Dr. Satish Gaikwad
India\'s higher education system stands as one of the largest globally, enrolling approximately 33.3 million students across a vast network of institutions. Despite this extensive infrastructure, the system grapples with significant challenges that impede the development of a high-quality human resource base. Key issues include limited accessibility, variable quality, affordability concerns, and a mismatch between educational outcomes and employability. This paper delves into these challenges, offering a comparative analysis with higher education systems worldwide. It explores policy interventions and strategic reforms aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of India\'s higher education framework, thereby fostering a more robust and competitive workforce.
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Mukesh Kumar Sharma and Mehraj U Din Mir
This paper argues that India’s foreign policy in 2022 is best understood through three interconnected dimensions: diplomatic voice, international status, and strategic balance. Existing scholarship has often explained India’s external behavior through the lenses of rising power politics, strategic autonomy, or status-seeking, but these are too often treated separately. A more integrated framework shows how India’s search for a meaningful place in world politics depends not only on material capabilities, but also on its effort to speak for broader constituencies, to be recognized as a consequential power, and to preserve room for maneuver amid systemic fragmentation. Using a qualitative, interpretive analysis of official speeches, policy statements, summit declarations, and scholarly literature, the paper examines how India in 2022 sought voice through multilateral diplomacy and claims to represent developing countries; sought status through leadership performances and external recognition; and pursued strategic balance through multi-alignment across the United States, Russia, Europe, and Asian partners. The paper contends that these three dimensions are mutually reinforcing but also tension-ridden. Together they illuminate India’s contemporary quest not simply to rise, but to define the terms on which it belongs in an unstable international order.
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