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Quality fear in rules for foreign varsities -Basant Kumar Mohanty

-The Telegraph

Some educationists feel that the proposed regulations might turn higher education into a purely commercial venture

New Delhi: Foreign universities ranked globally among the top 500 or other foreign higher education institutions considered “reputed” can set up campus in India and decide their fees, according to the University Grants Commission’s draft rules that also appear to suggest these institutions can repatriate their profits.

Some educationists fear that the proposed regulations, uploaded on the UGC website on Thursday with feedback from the public sought by January 18, might lead to a dilution of quality and allow higher education to turn into a purely commercial venture.

The National Education Policy (NEP), adopted in 2020, stipulated that “those from among the top 100 universities in the world will be facilitated to operate in India”. But the draft UGC regulations say: “NEP 2020 has envisioned that ‘top universities in the world will be facilitated to operate in India’.”

The draft UGC (Setting Up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations, 2023, add that a foreign university will be eligible if it has been ranked among the top 500 — overall or even subject-wise — by any international ranking agency.

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