and the increasing demand for cross-border mobility of skills. India’s education system is one of the largest in the world. Ocial enrolment data underscore the sheer scale of this challenge, with India’s higher-education population now exceeding 43 million students and still growing1 and producing graduates at a scale unmatched by any country except China. Yet the system faces a persistent paradox: Indian qualifications are respected for their rigour in certain elite institutions, but are not consistently treated as a first choice by employers abroad, and a significant proportion of graduates remain unable to demonstrate the portable, evidence-based skills that modern workplaces demand.
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