Nothing outstanding is going to come out of the ‘foreign’ universities because our higher education is caste-bound, hide-bound, and moribund. When the government of India wanted to convert the regional engineering colleges into national institutes of technology, it borrowed around 1300 crores of rupees from world bank under TEQIP. There was a reforms document that went with TEQIP. Being an unfortunate coordinator of the project at that time, I can tell the first hand experience. The entire institute wanted the money but not the reforms. So they money was spent on junkets by the faculty to ‘observe’ the best practices in Europe, the US, and all such good places.
Finally, after more than ten years when I tried to introduce some minor reforms in the courses I taught, I was pulled up by the Dean (Academic) for not following the ‘rules’ and the issue went all the way to the Senate. This was in a ‘national’ institute of technology which is in the higher ranks of academic excellence. But the students loved the simple reforms. That is why we find thousands of students, including from IITs and NITs fleeing our academic system once they experience it first hand. Our academic system has lost its credibility. And it will try its best to sabotage the ‘foreign’ universities if they upset the apple cart.
They would help deliver a better product. Barring the attendant desire to emigrate, there is no reason for Indians to study abroad in such large numbers, spending tens of billions of dollars. 2. As far as the regulatory labyrinth is concerned, it is a means of extracting rents. While introducing the economic reforms of 1991, Shri P Chidambaram had said that vast benefits had been giving up. Much more extractive in the states.
Nothing outstanding is going to come out of the ‘foreign’ universities because our higher education is caste-bound, hide-bound, and moribund. When the government of India wanted to convert the regional engineering colleges into national institutes of technology, it borrowed around 1300 crores of rupees from world bank under TEQIP. There was a reforms document that went with TEQIP. Being an unfortunate coordinator of the project at that time, I can tell the first hand experience. The entire institute wanted the money but not the reforms. So they money was spent on junkets by the faculty to ‘observe’ the best practices in Europe, the US, and all such good places.
Finally, after more than ten years when I tried to introduce some minor reforms in the courses I taught, I was pulled up by the Dean (Academic) for not following the ‘rules’ and the issue went all the way to the Senate. This was in a ‘national’ institute of technology which is in the higher ranks of academic excellence. But the students loved the simple reforms. That is why we find thousands of students, including from IITs and NITs fleeing our academic system once they experience it first hand. Our academic system has lost its credibility. And it will try its best to sabotage the ‘foreign’ universities if they upset the apple cart.
They would help deliver a better product. Barring the attendant desire to emigrate, there is no reason for Indians to study abroad in such large numbers, spending tens of billions of dollars. 2. As far as the regulatory labyrinth is concerned, it is a means of extracting rents. While introducing the economic reforms of 1991, Shri P Chidambaram had said that vast benefits had been giving up. Much more extractive in the states.