Chinese may be learning English but they are not switching their medium to English—all higher education takes place in Chinese. ... The obsession with English-medium education, particularly for technical and higher studies, is keeping millions of Indian children behind. The top business and professional schools in India remain English-based—their entrance exams are not only in English but specifically test English-language skills. A child in China, or for that matter, Japan or South Korea, does not have to deal with debilitating switch in medium to go to engineering, medical or business school. ... it is worth remembering that only four of the richest 20 economies in the world, by highest per-capita income, are English-based . Universal education, not English-medium, is what gives China the advantage over India. ... It is also a fallacy that our software success is built on knowledge of English. Israel’s population is half of Delhi’s, yet its software exports rival our own. It is...
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