Education / College & University : Harvard, Yale not likely to set up campuses in India: Sibal. PTI U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton with Union Minister for HRD, Kapil Sibal at the India-US Education Summit in Georgetown University, Washington on Thursday. The culmination of the one-day India-United States Higher Education Summit here did not generate any ‘big bang’ announcements in terms of new agreements penned but it did set in motion the mechanisms for such exchanges in the future that might lead to more U.S. investment into the vast vocational education space in India. Specifically, and in response to a question from The Hindu, Indian Minister for Human Resources Development Kapil Sibal ruled out top-tier universities coming to India, saying, “I do not think, personally, that we will have Harvard or Yale or Princeton coming in and setting up campuses.
I doubt that very much and I do not think that that is our vision either.” Instead, he said, the Summit, which will be followed up by U.S. Mr. Yet, Mr. The joint statement by Mr. Foreign Universities: The Answer to India’s problems? I just read an article (Will Foreign Universities Come to India?) In BusinessWeekOnline written by Nandini Lakshman. Here, Nandini has strongly argued in favor of allowing foreign universities to set up their campuses in India. Many people in India now have similar idea. They feel that Indian students are going abroad for higher education and this is causing the country a lot of foreign exchange. Secondly, if the foreign universities come to India then Indian students will have the opportunity to get world class education in their own cities.
Nandini has mentioned another important aspect: “Even Indian companies have started to complain and are hiring foreign talent for critical positions. I agree with Nandini and I also wish that Indian government allows foreign universities to come to India. Read more information on Capella University, Kaplan University and University Of Maryland. An Overview of the Education Market in India. Posted on Sunday, Sep 6th 2009 By Guest Author Shipra Agarwal Education has long been receiving the major wallet share of the Indian middle class. The education market is generally regarded as the only market towards which Indians are not price-sensitive because it has helped them reach their present standard of living and promises better earnings and prospects for their children.
India’s education sector currently offers an estimated US$40 billion market, with a potential 16% five-year CAGR. This spans the kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) segment (US$20 billion), private professional colleges (US$7 billion) and tutoring (US$5 billion), vocational training (US$1.4 billion), test preparation (US$1.7 billion), and preschools (US$1 billion). The most attractive and scalable sectors in this group are test preparation, K-12 and preschools. An increase in GPRS use and the introduction of 3G technology in India should also give a boost to concepts such as e-learning in the country. India education market introduction - Education UK Marketing - British Council.
Foreign Education Bill finally gets Cabinet nod. Foreign university students: Will they still come? Foreign universities set aside investments for India. Harvard Business School Announces 2012 India Program Portfolio Including Four New Programs. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade | IIFT | Mangement programs at IIFT. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was set up in 1963 by the Government of India as an autonomous organization to help the country's foreign trade management and increase exports by developing human resources; generating, analyzing and disseminating data; and conducting research.
Over the years, IIFT has undertaken path-breaking research studies with well-known organizations like WTO (World Trade Organization), World Bank, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) and the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. The Institute has also trained more than 40,000 business professionals across 30 countries in various facets of international business and trade policy via its Management Development Programs.
IIFT admits students through Entrance test, for the various programs that are listed below. An IIFT aspirant has to follow the prescribed entrance procedure to get admission in the following courses. Programs Offered Admission Procedure Placement. Top 10 Universities in Delhi | Best Ten Universities in New Delhi. Higher Education: Another Reason to Know National Capital Delhi Universities in Delhi are centers of attraction among undergraduate and graduate students. From different corners of India, students visit and stay in different parts of Delhi for pursuing higher education in various disciplines, viz; sciences, arts, commerce, computers, engineering, medical, law, IT, Biotechnology etc. Many also join research programs in distinct study discipline. Delhi has several top Universities recognized as centers of excellence to its credit, viz, IIT Delhi, University of Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, JNU New Delhi Rai University and many more.
Universities in Delhi provide undergraduate and postgraduate education in various disciplines of sciences, humanities, commerce, engineering, medical (health sciences / medicine), law (legal studies) and IT education etc. Universities in Delhi offers following Undergraduate Programs. Think higher education! No World Class Universities (WCU) in India? Will Foreign Universities Come to India? For decades, India's whiz kids with the financial means have packed up and headed off to foreign universities for their higher education. Many never come back, creating a huge diaspora of talent abroad. Around 150,000 students are currently studying in the U.S., Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. An additional 100,000 depart every year to pursue foreign degrees at a cumulative cost in tuition and housing of about $4 billion on average every year.
But what if the best universities—such as Yale, Stanford, Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the London School of Economics—could more easily set up campuses, hire faculty, and conduct research in India? It would open up world-class education and managerial training to a wider swathe of Indian society, where the number of college degrees on a per capita basis is low compared with China. GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT.
Yet this being India, things are not so simple. SIXTY BELOW TWENTY-FIVE. FILLING POSITIONS. TEACH LOCALLY. Opening for foreign universities in India. Think higher education! Foreign universities’ entry into India will raise academic standards. Foreign universities are not the answer | Indian Cabinet Backs Letting In Foreign Campuses. Foreign Universities in India. KapilSibal is in full swing and he has cleared the draft of Foreign Education Providers (Regulation) Bill to be placed before the Union Cabinet. Once the cabinet clears it, the Foreign Education providers will be able to offer degree programmes independently in India. This, in Mr. Sibal's view, will save millions of dollars as Indian students will be able to study in foreign universities while staying in India.
This will also expand the Higher Education offering in India, which will supplement Government's efforts to ramp up the number of seats and the quality of learning. This news was received well in India. This was always on the cards, but the previous drafts of the bill never saw light of the day because the previous education minister, Mr Arjun Singh, was never very keen on getting the foreign universities in.
Instead, he allowed a corrupt License Raj to foster in Education, leading to rapid deterioration of quality of Higher Education in India. Foreign Universities in India: Who’s Coming and Why? - DrEducation: Indian Education Blog, Rahul Choudaha. My article was published in Financial Express on the primary motives of foreign universities interested in India and their influence on key Indian higher education trends. Given below is the article which is also available here. While the Foreign Educational Institutions Bill is still awaiting discussions in Parliament, there is continued interest and curiosity about which foreign universities will come to India and how will the Bill influence Indian higher education?
Over the last decade, Indian higher education has witnessed three primary trends—growth of private institutions, increasing demand for professional education and widening regional disparity. These three trends will become stronger with the introduction of the Bill and more foreign universities with profit/revenue motives are expected to establish campuses in India. Motives of foreign universities Building universities of excellence is a time-taking and incremental process. Growth of private institutions Dr. India to Foreign Universities: Set Up Campus Here. For decades, foreign universities have been an integral part of India's higher education. Whiz kids across the country with the financial means have left for highly regarded global universities to study.
Many never return, taking both their tuition money and their talent overseas. More than 160,000 students are currently studying in schools in the U.S., Australia, Britain and elsewhere. Over 100,000 pack up and head to study abroad every year, spending $7 billion on tuition and housing. But what if big foreign universities like Yale, MIT, Stanford, Columbia Business School and the London School of Economics could set up campus in India? Sibal is not alone in his mission. While many foreign universities already have Indian partnerships in place, their models of business vary. Tie-ups like these may be a bargain, but they also circumnavigate national requirements for accredited schools, which govern student admission, fees and faculty salaries.
UNSW Singapore campus doomed to fail. AFTER just one semester, the University of NSW's Singapore campus officially closes its doors tomorrow, an uneasy conclusion to one of the Australian higher education sector's worst business failures. If the legacy of bereft students and angry academics weren't bad enough, other Australian universities offering programs in Singapore fear their reputations as business partners and education providers will suffer as the taint of the collapse spreads.
"We are certainly talking to our partners and reassuring them about the fact that we want to stay in Singapore, but I think it is going to make it difficult for any of us working there, in terms of attitudes to what Australian universities are doing," pro vice-chancellor international of Curtin University Kevin McKenna said. But the National University of Singapore president, in Melbourne this week, played down the impact of the closure.
"The marketplace is pretty resilient," Professor Shih told HES. "Universities open and close all the time. " University World News - INDIA: Foreign universities - a reality check. With the recent approval of the foreign universities bill by the cabinet, many people interested in Indian higher education are riding a wave of optimism and expecting that there will be a number of highly reputed institutions like Harvard and Yale establishing campuses in India. On the other hand, some people believe this will open the floodgates for poor quality institutions to enter India and take unfair advantage of students. Both these views are extremes and require a dose of reality. In these times of budget cuts and decreasing endowments for universities, there are very few reputed foreign universities that would be willing or able to establish campuses in India.
Public universities in the UK and US are facing financial turmoil and private non-profit universities which rely on tuition and endowments are facing the worst fall in their endowments since the recession. Having a global brand name and financial support may be necessary but it is not sufficient. Global MBA Rankings 2011. Table notesAlthough the headline ranking figures show the changes in the survey year to year, the pattern of clustering among the schools is also significant. A total of 210 points separate the top school from the school at number 100 in the ranking. The top 10 schools, from the London Business School and University of Pennsylvania: Wharton to Iese Business School, form the leading group of world-class business schools. A total of 41 points separate LBS and Wharton from Iese.
The second group is headed by the Indian Institute of Management, -Ahmedabad, which scored 69 points more than Lancaster University Management School, leader of the third group. The fourth group, which includes schools ranked from number 74 to 100, is headed by Purdue University: Krannert and University of Strathclyde Business School. Footnotes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 24. How to Save India's Overcrowded Schools. Will Indian Higher Education Get Freedom from Corruption? - DrEducation: Indian Education Blog, Rahul Choudaha. This month, India celebrated its sixty-fourth year of independence, however, freedom from the slavery of corruption is elusive. India has a long history of corruption and some of the recent cases in this "season of scams" are:Commonwealth Games: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India found that the final cost of the Games was 16 times the original estimate of $270 million to over $4billion.
The head of the CWG is now serving jail time for charges of misappropriation. 2G Scam: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India found that the goverment lost revenue to the tune of US$ 39 billion due to corruption and favoritism to particular telecom companies during spectrum allocation. Former minister is in jail and Kapil Sibal replaced him as telecom minister, who is also higher education minister.
I have been writing for a while about the lack of quality and professional standards in Indian higher education. The scope of corruption is at all levels although the scale differs. Dr. India doesn't figure in world top-100 universities.