Shanghai Rankings 2016:Poor Performance of Indian Universities

Shanghai rankings of global universities, publisher of Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), started its activity in 2003. Balaram wrote an editorial with a clear warning to our educational planners: 'I found the Shanghai rankings provocative and disturbing. It is clear that academic ambience of our large institutions is decaying. The government which funds these institutions, and the bodies that govern them need to take a long, hard and critical look at the higher education scene in India.' I published a letter in response to this editorial.