what price for foreign providers?

this article is a critic on the foreign education institutions bill 2010

·         The bill is aimed at facilitating foreign universities to setup campuses in India

·         Currently foreign universities run courses clandestinely

·         This move is expected to improve quality and competition in idnian education sector

·         In order to keep a check on fly by night operators, the bill has provided following safeguards

o   The university must have been in education field for past 20 yrs

o   Any surplus generated in India must be used for growth and development of university in India only

o   They should have  minimum corpis fund of 50 Cr Rs

·         The bill stipulates that quality of education provided by foreign campus in India should be comaprable to that in its home campus

NEGATIVES

·         Imitating foreign courses may create a course that is cultrally misfit

·         Moreover these foreign universities will come with a profit motive only and will not have any consideration for national interests

·         It has been onserved that most of foreign universities operating in other countries ddon’t take in alrge no of students. They concentrate only on certain specialisations.

·         Hence there is little hope of opening up higher education to alrger section of people by undertaking this move

WAY AHEAD

·         Rather than encouraging foreign univ to setup campuses here, they could forge student teacher exchange programs with indian universities

·         Kerala has been following this model and it has been fairly succesfull