Discussion
Assertion (A) : Higher education sector in India is third largest after China and United States. Yet the weaknesses outweigh the strengths.
Reason (R) : Less budgetary allocation is responsible for lowering the quality of education imported in India
Codes :
Answer: C
The key is both are true but (R) is not correct explanation of (A).
(A) is true: by enrolment, India's higher education system is commonly described as the third largest in the world after China and the United States, yet it is widely judged weak in quality, with faculty shortages, outdated curricula and few institutions of world rank.
(R) is also accepted: low public spending on higher education does hurt the quality of education imparted. But the weaknesses in (A) have many causes, including governance, regulation, the shortage of trained teachers and the uneven quality of affiliated colleges, so budget alone does not explain them. That is why the key treats (R) as true but not the explanation, rather than as the full explanation, or as false.
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