You cannot fund every university to be as good as Harvard: THE's Phil Baty

He said that the govt should recognise universities with potential and then help them internationalise with better funding

At the core of a slower growth among Indian universities' representation in global rankings used to be a reluctance to share data, especially with overseas ranking agencies. But not anymore, says Phil Baty, Editorial Director - Global Rankings, Times Higher Education (THE), known for its annual World University Rankings, who is in India to talk about data benchmarking. Baty is not just impressed by the change in attitude among Indian varsities, but also by the government's policy push in the form of Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA), National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) and Institutes of Eminence. In an interview with