Question
Directions : In the following question, a small passage is given. The options below have 4 sentences. From these, choose the sentence as your answer, that best describes the passage briefly, without the addition of any other information. If no sentence serves as the summary of the given passage, choose option 5, ‘None of these’ as your answer.
India, after half a century of keeping its higher
education doors closed to foreigners, is on the cusp of opening itself to the world. The traditional orientation to swadeshi that has characterised much of Indian thinking, at least in higher education, is changing. The wide-ranging National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 promises higher education reforms in many areas, and internationalisation is prominent among them. Among the underlying ideas is to strengthen India’s “soft power” through higher education collaboration, bringing new ideas and institutions from abroad to stimulate reform and show “best practice”, and in general to ensure that Indian higher education, for the first time, is a global player.
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The introduction of NEP has brought the Indian education to global standards, and many educational institutions from abroad have already got sanction to open up their branch in India.
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The perspective of higher education is changing in India, with the reforms in NEP that amends the traditional Indian practice of not allowing foreigners in higher education to opening its doors for international educational institutions, thus making it a global player.
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Indian education system will be going on a complete transformation with NEP, that will privatise all the education institutions in India, and will also allow foreign education institutions to operate freely in India, thus making Indian students ready to take up any global challenge.
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The NEP has promised many reforms, the most prominent one being internationalisation of higher education, whereby more foreign students will have a chance to attend Indian Universities at an affordable cost and the number of exchange programs will be increased.
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None of these
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Solution
Only option 2 is correct. Option 1- These are the promises of NEP, and it hasn’t been put to effect yet. Option 3- Not all educational institutions will be privatised. Option 4- No mention of exchange programs in the passage.
