Better Know a Higher Ed System: India (Part 1)
India is a big, crazy, multi-faceted, barely-functioning-but-still-impressive-it’s-functioning-at-all kind of country. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that its higher education system is a big, crazy, multi-faceted, barely-functioning- but-still-impressive-it’s-functioning-at-all kind of system. The indigenous tradition of higher education stretches back to the 6th century AD. Back then, Nalanda University was a world-centre of (mostly) Buddhist learning, which attracted students from Nepal, China, Southeast Asia, and Tibet. Nalanda was also the first university with student dorms, and (allegedly) developed the first
November 27, 2014
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