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.
Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.
PM-EAC paper says overhaul of Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority system sharply improved processing speed and reduced paperwork for investors.
While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.
Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.
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.