HELLO Friends this is bharat.
The Union Cabinet has cleared the Foreign Educational Institution (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill in a meeting today. This has paved the way for introduction of this bill in the Parliament. This move by the government is meant to further the agenda of commercialization and opening up our education sector to foreign players in keeping with its neo-liberal policies. This bill had been pending for the last four years, since it could not be tabled in the Parliament due to the spirited opposition by the Left Parties and the democratic student movement during the previous government’s tenure. The new HRD minister had declared that getting this bill passed would be one of the first things on his agenda.
Contrary to what is being propagated by the government and its neo-liberal ideologues the foreign university bill will not bring in any quality educational institutions to our country. It is only an attempt to legalize profiteering by substandard and commercially driven educational providers to come and set shop and make money in the country. The bill also exempts all these foreign educational providers from obeying any quota norms which will further increase the discrimination levels which already plague our educational system.
The passage of this bill would also be an attack on our intellectual self-reliance where educational providers would not be guided by any concern for the society at large but more interested by profit motives and at best serving the dictates of the market.
The SFI has been consistently opposed to this bill and will launch a country-wide movement against this anti-student and anti-national legislation. We appeal to the student community to rise against this attempt to sell out our education sector and also expose the myths which are being circulated to garner support for this bill.
The problem which our education sector faces can not be handled by promoting and allowing more private and foreign educational providers who have a free run. What is required is a significant increase in government spending on education, something which the present government has conveniently forgotten and overlooked.
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You come at the wrong conclusion with the right facts as you always do,Bharat.And please don't call SFI intiated movements as democratic. The student elections of JNU has been banned for years;for the "democratic,free,liberal"behaviour of SFI.It is well accepted that Indian eduacation system has lost its connection with the outer world. The foriegn universities will let us know the requirements and expectations of the world.We have alraedy given 60 years to govt. and we can see the results.So don't start abusing (according to your tradition) foreign universities; for they have not even entered the system.
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1) india needs more universites & do u think that government can fullfill that demand.
have u read the news? = government have desided to bufurcate PUNE, MUMBAI & NAGPUR universites. because they have extended limites of intake capacity of students & colleges. ( REF - DNA, PUNE, Date 8-4-2010, Front page)
By this can u think that government is able to fullfill the need
2) surely we need some foregn universites at least becouse of that our universites will get some compitetore which will give better improvment in education system.
How many schools & colleges are purly running by government?, most of the colleges are under university witch are private or seamy private or funded by government. In pUne it self some collage got 'A' grade by NACC wich not even good to get 'C' grade & no one is resricting it.
I think that foreign universities will help in improving the education scenario of India. We need quality education. But all this should be done with the incorporation of stricter norms. Govt. should also play its part in improving the education system. Dependence upon foreign universities will affect the nation in a long run.
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