The Cabinet on Monday cleared a bill that will enable Foreign Universities to setup campuses in India. While reporting for the Foreign Universities Bill, issues of shortage of faculty and poaching of academicians are raised by media etcAlready one lakh Indian students go out every year for higher education from India. Most of these students go out of the country to pursue their higher studies because of lack of facilities for quality education in the country. This also costs a huge foreign exchange outgo to the exchequer.
Till the BSNL-MTNL era, the Indian telecom sector had similar apprehensions and it was unimaginable that the level of telecom services will increase so much when it was transferred to private sector . The aviation sector also saw similar changes after it was opened to the private sector ending the Indian Airlines, Air India monopoly.
The Indian educational sector is bound to be more prosperous in the coming days to come by the step of allowing the foreign universities to setup campuses in the country. It will attract more aspirants towards this opportunity and will bring in qualitative changes in the educational system of India.
While, many other civil services offer better perks than academics, the real mentors of the country i.e. the academicians rank poorly on this count as well.
Mr. Kapil Sibal deserves all kudos for pushing through this bill which will bring out all qualitative changes in the educational system of the country.
This policy will attract students from other countries for pursuing education at lower costs as India has the advantage of lower infrastructure cost.
The educational sector is also a very similar sector which is based on the same two components i.e. quality manpower and infrastructure and India certainly has an edge over many other countries in availability of both these components.
It's really great because now we will be having the same universities here for which the student goes to foreign.
ReplyDeletei Think Mr. Sibal is globalising the education standards and academics in a very sensible manner,thanks to the reforms which he is creating.
ReplyDeletecreating a competition enhances the quality ,that is an old concept of economic competence.Mr. sibal has really done good .Hats off to him by those students who cannot afford to go outside.
ReplyDeletebut i think is it going to be a boon or bane since if the indian universities are strong enough to handle the competition then it will be good for them otherwise it will create endless problems for them as far as admisssions are concerned.
ReplyDeleteMr Sibal has been changing the education scenario from the moment he has come to office, I suppose this is one of those central views of globalisation.
ReplyDeletei dont think this will create competition for indian universities as they are well equipped.
ReplyDeleteAn estimated 160,000 students leave India every year to study abroad, according to the National Knowledge Commission, an advisory group to the prime minister.Many of them will find relief here withiout going to foreign
ReplyDeleteIt is definetly a good bill which will reform the education system and bring the competition into education market which is sometimes necessary to improve the standards.
ReplyDeleteTransformation of education system is required. Not just in terms of allowing foreign institutions to open their campuses here but in terms of quality and the kind of remuneration our academicians receive. There is no encouragement neither for students nor for teachers and faculties in terms of research and inventions. More because amenities are near to nil and compensation is demoralizing.
ReplyDeleteAs nicely put by jack Welch
"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it, you almost don't have to manage them."
Hope this will be realized soon. Anyways, this bill is of course a welcoming step towards reformation.
Ritu