Government
The HRD Minister has announced that the bill for setting up off-campus centres of foreign universities in the country would be introduced in the parliament. It is clear that the Government has not learnt any lesson from its earlier mistake of setting up private deemed 57 universities. Though it was argued that private universities would help improve the quality of education, our experience has been so unsatisfactory that Yash Pal committee has called for a review of the system.
Yash Pal committee’s recommendation to permit setting up of foreign universities within the framework of strict regulations appears to be misplaced. Such a step would not help improve the quality of education, even assuming that only the best institutions would be permitted to set up campuses and such institutions would be interested in running their quality programmes and post their best faculty in India. Improvement of quality has to come from within, through an internal process. Collaboration with foreign institutions can certainly
assist this process .What we need therefore is not independent campuses of foreign universities operating on the Indian soil , but active academic collaboration of the best foreign universities with Indian universities. Hence instead of setting up campuses of foreign universities in India, steps should have been taken to encourage academic collaboration of foreign universities with Indian Universities.
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In my opinion there is no harm in having foreign universities campus in country provided these features are included :
1. University Should give more stress to research in fields where we need to build up.
2. University should actively involve in collaboration with industries and government in various projects.
3. Focus on research area like cheap clean technologies and engineering should be given stress.
4. Focus should be on good universities with International repute in academics and research.
5. Free hand can not be given in deciding fees.
Further, it is important that existing 500 universities be strengthened by giving them more autonomy, promoting more research orientation. In fact best option is to replicate the IITs way of working in these universities.
Patch work of reform can not work but rightly said reform from within is must. A change should be endo-genetic first and then exo-genetic as said by FW Riggs in his comparative administration.