Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra tweeted a list of nations with the top 500 universities in the world as a suggestion to raise the bar and quality of higher education in India.
With 87 universities, the USA led the field, followed by Britain with 49 and Germany with 31. With only 8 universities in the top 500 worldwide, India placed at the lower end of the list. India is joined by Belgium, Sweden, and Malaysia in having the same number of universities.
Anand Mahindra, a prominent Twitter user, tweeted the list on Saturday on the site's official account and noted that the quantity and calibre of a nation's institutions of higher learning are directly related to that nation's ability for innovation and its rate of increase in production. India should be placed higher on the list.
As per the information shared by Anand Mahindra on Twitter, the USA has 87 top universities, Great Britain has 49. On the other hand, Germany has 31, Australia has 26, China (26), Canada (17), Japan (16), Korea (16), Italy (14), Netherlands (13), Spain (12), France (11), Belgium (8) and so on.
“Ultimately, I consider the long run consistency of a rustic’s progressive capability and its development in productiveness is linked to the quantity and high quality of its centres of larger studying. We want to maneuver up on this list…,” Anand Mahindra captioned the list.
Mahindra responded to one of these comments with, "Hope you folks yare doing your part by financing top vlass Edu institutes in India instead of donating to US of A unis!" and included the Twitter address for the university.
Although many private corporate organisations are involved in the education sector, government spending on education as a percentage of GDP has been pitifully low, to put it mildly.
In 2021–22, government spending on education as a percentage of GDP was 3.1%; in 2019–20, it was 2.8%. South Africa spends 5.9% of its GDP on education, Brazil 6.3%, and the UK 5.4%. 4.2% is the average worldwide. In 2022, the government promised to raising the figure to 6% in future.
