Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Cabinet nod for the Bill to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India

Mr Sibal’s efforts to address the challenges confronting the higher education sector in the country are already paying dividends. The Union Budget has allocated Rs. 11,000 crore for the higher education sector, a hike of 7 per cent. Liberalisation in the education sector may lead to a larger participation of private unaided foreign institutions providing better quality higher education. This will infuse creative and productive competitions in offering better salary structure to India’s talented but poor teaching community. And naturally the reverse brain drain will acquire a faster pace.

But what if this opportunity is utilised for mere commercial purposes and not for true value quality Education? “The higher education providers delivering cross-border education should ensure that the programmes that are delivered across the borders and in their home country are of comparable quality and they also must take into account the cultural and linguistic sensitivities of the receiving countries,” Mr Sibal had said in the keynote address at the plenary Session of the World Conference on Higher Education, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on July 8, 2009. Way to go, Mr Sibal!
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IIPM Editorial, 2009


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