Internationalization of Higher Education in India and National Education Policy 2020.

The New Education Policy 2020 is notified with an objective to place India as 'knowledge superpower' on the map of the global education providers. The new policy is overhauling the entire Indian education system which includes the primary, middle, high school and higher education. The embedded target of the policy is to make the Indian education competitive with the international education and attract foreign students and impart high quality education on par with the international institutions. Though India has taken some strategic initiatives and education policies pronounced earlier have paved way for qualitative education and liberal approach to the education sector, they have not accomplished the desired results. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) has facilitated and opened the education markets for the global players, and the institutions with quality products and services will only survive in the stiff competition. The new education policy has opened discussions and a road map for internationalization of education in India as part of compliance of GATS provisions. This paper provides discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of the internationalization of higher education and facilitating the educational institutions towards achieving the goals of the education policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]