Outmigration of skilled students hampers innovation & knowledge creation as well as increases dependency on foreign tech, it asserts, calling for 'internationalisation at home'.
Most Indians going to Ireland for higher studies are either Master's or PhD students, says envoy Brendan Ward. A major draw for them is post-study work opportunities for two years.
UGC draft rules for foreign universities entering India include clause that they cannot teach courses that jeopardise ‘national interest’, but there is no clarity on what this means.
Data in Parliament show UK regain popularity in last 3 yrs with opening of post-work visas being seen as advantage. In contrast, Covid & strict rules hurt other foreign destinations.
M. Jagadesh Kumar says UGC will clarify the process, legal & bureaucratic frameworks. In a 2021 survey, foreign universities had cited govt approvals, fee regulation as challenges.
MoS Education Subhas Sarkar told Parliament that Italian fashion and design school Istituto Marangoni and an unnamed French institution have expressed interest.
‘Security situation demands capabilities. The hum of machinery must become a roar,’ NATO chief Mark Rutte said as he announced 5 new military contracts. Drones and ISR take the lead.
The Congress party’s abandonment of nationalism is the most intriguing aspect of its post-2014 politics. The real Congress was never a party of bleeding heart pacifists.
India campuses are just for minting money. People from northern and western India have lots of disposable income and are willing to spend crores on the education of their wards. They want fancy degrees from elite-sounding schools, colleges and universities. They aspire for their children to do their A levels and O levels and are willing to pay through their nose for the same. The same gets reflected in the boom of ‘international’ schools with IB and Cambridge curriculum across all our cities.
Western universities realised that they can make a killing here and, of course, the Modi govt obliged them by allowing them to set up shop here.
India campuses are just for minting money. People from northern and western India have lots of disposable income and are willing to spend crores on the education of their wards. They want fancy degrees from elite-sounding schools, colleges and universities. They aspire for their children to do their A levels and O levels and are willing to pay through their nose for the same. The same gets reflected in the boom of ‘international’ schools with IB and Cambridge curriculum across all our cities.
Western universities realised that they can make a killing here and, of course, the Modi govt obliged them by allowing them to set up shop here.