Foreign Education Bill

Foreign Universities in India

One thing is very sure that foreign education bill will make education systems as corporate system. Fundamental right of education will become costlier, specially for medium income group Indians.

Few facts about current private institutions:

• Quality of education is poor with compare to government professional institutes.
• Professional course aspirants still want to join government institutions like, IIT, NIT, IIM, and IHT etc
• Private institute / universities are running by business man as education factories
• Private institutes have lack of facilities
• Private institutes have lack of qualified faculties.
• It is difficult to get admission in regular BSc, BCom admission in old established good college / university with compare to Engineering / professional college.
• Engineering institutes are charging fee arpox 1 lac per annum or more.
• Private business schools are charging fee arpox 5 -15 lac per course.

Fact which will come after foreign institutions

• Education systems will become 3-4 folds costlier at least.
• These universities will run their courses in India on self franchise / extension / chain of school basis.
• Harvard, Cambridge, MIT etc are only one. In fact in own country they are single entity. They run their university with brand value. University of California at Santa Clara, University of California at Las Angels, like that. But there is only one University of California and other are “@”.
• It is like AMU @ Kishanganj or BITS @ Jaipur or Banasthali University @ Jaipur.
• [These are correct details. Originally AMU is in Aligarh. BITS in Pilani and Banasthali Nivai (near Jaipur)] [above stated are its extension / campus / in respective cities]
• They will acquire lots of land; again it will be agricultural land. AS usual government will give them these lands either without cost or nominal cost.

My questions to HRD minster are very simple & straight

• Why are you not improving current institutions infrastructures?
• There are many government polytechnics and ITI institutes with lots of land, building and infrastructure. Why are you not upgrading them to engineering college?
• Why are you not controlling the quality of education deliverable in all government / private institutions?
• What are long term programs to attract good faculty?
• What are the research promotion programmes?

Why are you too much keen to invite foreign university in our countries? Let it be reciprocal. Let our institute go outside.