Kerala all set to go global in education

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Aiming to make education sector in the state globally competitive and to establish the state as a world-class destination for higher studies, the state government is planning to organise an international education meet.By equipping the state with international standards in education, the government feels that more students from abroad would enrol for programmes offered here. Moreover, creation of such standards would also help in checking the outflow of students from India to foreign countries.The global education meet is planned as a sequel to the International Education Meet(IEM) held in Kochi from February 6 to 8, 2006, during the tenure of the previous UDF Government. The last meet had kicked up a controversy with several social and youth organisations staging protest against it alleging that the government was promoting commercialisation of the education  sector.