Plot skills map before reforming higher education

Indian students studying abroad are getting increasingly caught in geopolitical crossfires. When Donald Trump won his second term with a hard message against immigrants, many Indian students started looking elsewhere as they realised staying back to earn dollars after getting the degree would be tougher. Last year, the government informed parliament that more than 13 lakh Indian students were studying abroad and that the total had grown by about half in half a decade. The latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject, released Thursday, accommodated only one Indian institute in its top 100 for the first time - the Indian Institute of Science, at the 99th spot.