Education at the Crossroads is about a range of issues that bedevil higher education and school education in India. Edited by Apoorvanand and Omita Goyal, the book consists of 19 essays with a well-written foreword by Karan Singh.
The good news is that in the past two decades higher education has grown exponentially in India. We now have the largest system of higher education in the world. More children, especially girls, are going to college. In fact, 46 percent of students enrolled in colleges are girls. The percentage of SC/ST students has also risen, though Muslims continue to. . .
