FICCI-EY Index to Foster Healthy Competition & Promote Collaboration Among States in Higher Education to Achieve Vision 2030 Goals

Abstract

By 2030, India will be amongst the youngest nations in the world with nearly 150 million people in the college-going age group. By 2030, the already existing challenges for Indian higher education – access, equity and quality – will only be greatly exacerbated unless we significantly transform our higher education model. In this context, the 2013 EY-FICCI report on “Higher Education in India: Vision 2030”, tried to articulate an ambitious vision for higher education reform and lay out a roadmap to achieving it. However, the scale and complexity of the individual states, calls for a state specific approach to achieving this vision for India. All states need to adopt a transformative and innovative approach across all levers of higher education: from curricula and pedagogy to the use of technology to partnerships, governance and funding, to become globally relevant and competitive.