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Generate competition, says Cohon

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`They should emulate the U.S. higher education pattern'

NEW DELHI: President of Carnegie Mellon University Jared Cohon on Thursday said that India needed to generate enough competition among its universities for conducting studies on various subjects as also develop faculties for genuine research and developmental work for the larger benefit of its societies.

Emulate U.S. pattern

Stating this at the concluding day of a conference on `Globalisation and Higher Education in India,' organised by Assocham and (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations) here, Dr. Cohon said that Indian universities needed to emulate the U.S. higher education pattern, which promotes research and innovation to take research to a logical end.

Currently, the focus of Indian academicians is on higher education, which hardly yields results, and that in an era when IT and knowledge-based industries are demanding innovation.

He suggested that India needed to change its curriculum on higher education.

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