India Economic Summit 2009 - Creating World-Class Education in India

http://www.weforum.org 09.11.2009
Creating World-Class Education in India
With nearly two-thirds of its population under the age of 35, India has the world's largest pool of young people. However, only 11% of those aged 17-23 receive higher education.

How will the recent increase in the national budget for higher education transform India into a world-class educational hub and ensure access for all its youth?

Special Guest
Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development of India

Discussion Leaders
William D. Green, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Accenture, USA; Co-Chairman of the India Economic Summit
Richard C. Levin, President, Yale University, USA; Global Agenda Council on the Intellectual Property System
Rajendra S. Pawar, Chairman, NIIT Group, India
Shantanu Prakash, Managing Director, Educomp Solutions, India
Anand Sudarshan, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Manipal Education, India
Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman and Corporate Vice-President, Microsoft Corporation India, India

Chaired by
Raj Chengappa, Managing Editor, India Today Group, India

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News & Politics

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• WEF
• World
• Economic
• Forum
• India
• Summit
• WEFIndia
• 2009
• Education

[narenreddy7]

The Promotion of Successfull Entrepreneurship is must for the so called prestigous institutes of india like IIM and IITs. With the increasing in graduates, we need to think of creating more companies to recruit them.

Otherwise,we will be great exporter of human skills to the world. That may be healthier to india indrectly but that is not the way we are supposed to be heading.

[gandhistears]

what a self serving, complacently privileged bunch- how about inviting a professor in a university who is actually able to provide a view from say the chaos currently happening in delhi university who can meaningfully & forcefully question all the grandiosity, accountability & competence of this panel?