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Notes
1. Tim Ferguson, “Nasscom Keeps Ringing Worker Shortage Warning Bell,” CNET News.com, November 9, 2006. Online at: http://news.com.com/Nasscom+keeps+ringing+worker+shortage+warning+bell/2100-1011_3-6133979.html.
2. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, The Rise of India (Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Asia, 2007), pp. 3–4.
3. Ibid., p. 40.
4. Dominic Wilson and Roopa Purushothaman, Dreaming with the BRICs: The Path to 2050, Goldman Sachs Global Economics Paper no. 99, October 1, 2003. Online at: www2.goldmansachs.com/insight/research/reports/99.pdf. As countries’ economies develop and their populations age, their growth rate tends to slow. According to this study, India’s economy is the only one among the BRIC countries that is expected to continue growing at more than 5 percent per year through 2050. Nonetheless, because India’s GDP per capita is substantially below that of the other BRIC countries today, individual income in India will still be lower than in other BRIC countries even in 2050 (per capita GDP will be $17,366 in India compared to $26,592 in Brazil, $31,357 in China, and $49,646 in Russia—and $58,514 in the G6 countries).
5. Ibid.
6. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Postsecondary Institutions in the United States: Fall 2003 Degrees and Other Awards Conferred: 2002-03 (NCES 2005-154), 2005. Online at: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005154.
7. “A World of Opportunity: Developing Countries See the Point of Higher Education,” survey of higher education, The Economist, September 10, 2005, p. 7.
8. National Knowledge Commission, Report to the Nation 2006. Government of India, January 2007, p. 16. Online at: http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/.
9. Anand Giridharadas, “For many Indians, higher education does more harm than good,” International Herald Tribune, November 26, 2006. Online at: www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/26/business/india.php.
10. Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006. Online at: http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006TOP500list.htm. The two Indian institutions on the list are the Indian Institute of Technology—Kharagpur and the Indian Institute of Science.
11. Pratap Bhanu, “Outsourcing of Indian Education: Rigid government control hobbles Indian universities’ attempt to compete globally,” Yale Global, June 2006. Online at: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=7570.
12. “Knowledge panel wants 1,500 varsities by 2015,” Times of India, January 13, 2007. Online at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Knowledge_panel_wants_1500_varsities_by_2015/articleshow/1162099.cms.
13. Monobina Gupta, “Varsity bill hits Left wall,” Calcutta Telegraph, May 8, 2007. Online at: www.telegraphindia.com/1070508/asp/frontpage/story_7748286.asp.
14. Marie Lall, The Challenges for India’s Education System (Chatham House, April
2005). Online at: www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/download/-/id/263/file/3899_bpindiaeducation.pdf.
15. Gurcharan Das, “Education: A Learning Curve,” Newsweek International, February 28, 2006. Online at: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11571960/site/newsweek/.
16. Nicholas Kristof, “In its Match with China, India Penalizes Its Own Team,” New York Times, April 24, 2007.
17. Agastya Mobile Lab. See www.agastya.org/Mobile.htm.
18. To read more about the Hole in the Wall Project, see http://www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest/holeinthewall.html.
19. For more about the implications of Web 2.0, see Richard P. Adler, Next-Generation Media: The Global Shift (Washington, D.C.: Aspen Institute Communications and Society Progam, 2006). Online at: /sites/default/files/content/docs/communications and society program/NEXTGENERATION.PDF.
20. John Seely Brown, “New Learning Environments for the 21st Century: Exploring the Edge,” Change, September/October 2006. Online at: www.johnseelybrown.com/Change%20article.pdf.
21. Shola Adenekan, “The Great Giveaway,” Education Guardian, January 17, 2007. Online at: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,,1992343,00.html.
22. Curriki’s global perspective is evidenced by the makeup of its advisory board, which includes educators from Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
23. Daniel E. Atkins, John Seely Brown, and Allen L. Hammond, A Review of the Open Educational Resources Movement: Achievements, Challenges and New Opportunities, Report to William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, February 2007. Online at: http://hewlett.org/NR/rdonlyres/5D2E3386-3974-4314-8F67-5C2F22EC4F9B/0/AReviewoftheOpenEducationalResourcesOERMovement_BlogLink.pdf.