| deja-vu. remember those Indian newspaper articles
| clamoring for a 'level playing field' for foreign
| businesses in India -- and how the big, bad, male,
| government in India wouldn't let them have one?
|
| anyone, please, let us know what is so bad about the
| CNR Rao Committee's report? and exactly how the sky will
| fall on our heads if Yale, Stanford and Georgia Tech
| do not open shops in India?
|
| we think the GOI has recommended stuff in the interest
| of the Indian Citizen. the newspaper seems to connote
| otherwise.
Foreign univs, here you go
Nandini R Iyer
New Delhi, August 7, 2005
Foreign education institutions may decide to give India a miss if the
government decides to follow the recommendations of a highlevel
committee it had set up to help frame policy on the subject.
The CNR Rao committee on entry of foreign universities has several rules
in mind for any comers. No poaching faculty from Indian colleges. No
sending profits back home to parent institutions abroad. No franchising
or offshore study campuses.
The committee also suggests that preferably only foreign universities
from countries that offer Indian universities a business opportunity
abroad should be allowed in.
The report suggests that the government lets in FEPs only after creating
"a suitable regulatory and monitoring mechanism at the national level".
The draft bill wants FEPs registered as deemed universities under the
University Grants Commission (UGC), which reports to the Union HRD Ministry.
Government sources say it is likely that the recommendations of the Rao
Committee will be accepted in full. It is expected to provide a
"substantial security deposit against fly-by-night operators".
Approval to FEPs will be for a limited trial period, and will be
extended depending upon performance. The committee suggests that such
institutions should not be allowed to repatriate surpluses. It also
wants the government to discourage franchising and off shore study
centers, and opt for only twinning programmes with existing Indian
universities.
In the past year, Yale, Stanford and Georgia Tech have evinced interest
in coming to India.
That interest may wane now.
Ivy League wishlist: YALE: wanted partnerships in select areas without
grassroots involvement. STANDFORD: looking for a greenfield campus and
also willing to look at an off-shore campus. GEORGIA TECH: looking for a
green field campus.
cited from...
http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_1454786,0008.htm