1.Govt. does not want to loosen its stranglehold on higher education.
2. Murli Manohar Joshi committed the grave mistake of challenging the fees
charged by IIM-s and demanded reduction of the fees. Already many IIM-s were
losing the faculty to others like Indian Business School for higher
remunerations. Joshi miserably failed in his policy, which he should have
initiated taking the Governing bodies and Directors into confidence
3.And now the senile Arjun Singh has brought in the OBC issue for admissions
compromising on the merit of the admissions. Little do these protagonists
realise that the employers while screening the applicants for placements,
easily identify the reserved categories without merit making rejections much
easier!! It is to the disadvantage of the OBC or other reserved students.
Why not Arjun Singh start Institutes of higher education exclusively for such
Reserved categories with OBC faculty and fund it fully from Govt. rather than
disturbing the existing set up?
4.IIM Bangalore had finalised to open a branch in Singapore with the World
famous Singapore University and Arjun Singh stepped in "Why didn't you ask me
for permission? you cannot go outside the Country"
5. Education should be thrown open to autonomous Universities with tangential
control by the Govt. on the programmes/ syllabuses..etc. not violating the
interests of the Nation. Politicisation and Religious control of education has
damaged the Nation's future generation considerably as we see agitations
against text books by Marxist Govt. in Kerala
--- On Sun, 7/6/08, Dr.V.N. Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Dr.V.N. Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ =>> Jharkhand <<= ] Ban foreign education franchises: DEC
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Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 7:49 PM
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Dear Varun & others,
Is it a way to continue the corrupt practices by AICTE and other Govt agencies
concerned with Specialised course teching in India.
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Ban foreign education franchises: DEC
New Delhi: The Government of India is likely to pass a law banning educational
institutions in the country from opening franchises abroad for running distant
education courses.
The Distant Education Council (DEC) has advised the country's Human Resource
Development (HRD) Ministry to stop such practices, reports IANS.
"We know that several educational institutions, mainly private ones, are
opening their franchises abroad. This is a bad practice and we are against it,"
DEC chairman V N Rajasekharran Pillai said.
"Let me clarify, we are not against opening of new institutes by Indian
institutions. But giving permissions to a local party (abroad) by Indian
institutions is not good," he added. Pillai is also the vice chancellor of
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
The council has asked the HRD Ministry to incorporate all these "points and
concerns" in a proposed bill on distance education pending before it.
"We are not against Indian education going global but not franchises. This is
affecting, and will affect, the quality of education and compromise with the
necessary guidelines," he stressed.
Authorities said a number of Indian institutions are allowing local parties,
especially in the Gulf countries, to start distant learning education centres.
Led by IGNOU, several state open learning universities were in Delhi earlier
this week to deliberate on ways to strengthen distance learning programmes.
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