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Modi Takes Steps to Allow Yale, Oxford to Open India Campuses
(Bloomberg) -- India has taken a step toward allowing leading foreign universities such as Yale, Oxford and Stanford to set up campuses and award degrees as part of an overhaul of the South Asian nation’s higher education.Most Read from BloombergWhat We Know About the ‘Kraken’ Covid Variant...
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Modi Takes Steps to Allow Yale, Oxford to Open India Campuses
Bibhudatta Pradhan
Thu, January 5, 2023 at 7:58 AM CST·2
(Bloomberg) -- India has taken a step toward allowing leading foreign universities such as Yale, Oxford and Stanford to set up campuses and award degrees as part of an overhaul of the South Asian nation’s higher education.
Regulator the University Grants Commission on Thursday unveiled a draft legislation for public feedback that seeks to facilitate entry and operation of overseas institutions in the country for the first time. The local campus can decide on admission criteria for domestic and foreign students, fee structure and scholarship, according to the draft. The institutions will have the autonomy to recruit faculty and staff.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is pushing to overhaul the country’s heavily-regulated education sector to enable Indian students to obtain foreign qualifications at an affordable cost and make India an attractive global study destination. The move will also help overseas institutions to tap the nation’s young population.
Even as India’s universities and colleges have produced chief executive officers at companies from Microsoft Corp. to Alphabet Inc., many fare poorly in global rankings. The country needs to boost its education sector to become more competitive and close the growing gap between college curricula and market demand. It’s currently ranked 101 among 133 nations in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index of 2022 that measures a nation’s ability to grow, attract and retain talent.
Some universities have already set up partnerships with Indian institutions, allowing students to partially study in India and complete their degrees on the main campus abroad. The current move will encourage these overseas institutions to set up campuses without local partners.
The University Grants Commission’s final draft will be presented to the parliament for its approval before becoming law.
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While in Islamic Republic of Pakistan, country’s most powerful organization is working day and night to eliminate a national and federal political party and to assasinate its leader.
This is the progress of 75 years, country is about to default and to go bankrupt.
Oxford, Stanford, Yale combined stand top three positions.
Princeton is 1st MIT, 2nd.