India has a large amount of younger
population, in reading the article, “Challenges and Solutions in Indian Higher
Education”, we see that the population from 15 to 24 is approximately 234
million. Problems in India is with the steps they are taking in means of improvement
in higher education. The article states that only one out of every seven
children in India goes to college. India ranks very low in Universities not
even mentioned in the top 200 universities and has a very low percentage for
Gross Enrollment Ratios at about 13.8 percent in comparison to a global average
of 26 percent. In order for India to reach 30 percent in the GER they would
have to enroll 40 million students by the year of 2020, right now there are
only 18.5 million enrolled.
The big problem is there is not universities
to house the students, India would need mass amounts of Universities, Technical
schools and colleges in order to supply the target amount of students. India has not seen the need for
Universities/colleges until recently but this need will not be achieved under
public government owned systems but only with the help of private sectors. The issues with Universities and colleges in
India is that they were created by those who did not have enough knowledge about
education and were mainly business people these people did not know how to
create an environment for education and with this they provided a service which
attracted many students but left them with a unexceptional education. India has
a great need for private universities but the legislation to create them is
enabling meaning that many of the government bodies have differing mandates.
There is not a State Private University act and the reason for this is because
institutions are so tightly controlled, private universities have little room for
improvement.
The article then speaks of how there has been no reform in the education
sector and how they have been trying to pass a bill for Foreign Education
Providers that has been waiting for legislation for some time now. They are
trying to set up campuses in India that are in the top 400 Universities and in
September they tried to do this while operating independently without local
partners but this did not pass through Parliament. The Foreign Education Providers Bill was made
to control and regulate foreign universities, and it would not be able to take
profits out of the country and this would need permission from the University
Grant Commission. The bill was
transposed in order to welcome foreign universities in. But even with the newly
composed bill the fine print drove many away. The concept of a multitude of
western universities lining up to take advantage of India’s $10 billion
education market is skewed, as universities are not corporations and do not
increase profits by expanding across the globe. Western universities have their
own financial problems that have a higher priority.
First
of all, I’d like to say that India has created many problems in their community
with Education. From other classes I have learned that India doesn’t have a
high literacy rates for girls or boys and this leads me to believe even the
public owned schools for children don’t have high standards of education or
enrollment is low. We see that enrollment in higher education is not very high
in India and this is a problem. Also that the universities/colleges they do
have don’t provide a “good education” and they don’t have room for the amount
of students that need to be educated. There are many universities in the U.S.
who want to help with private education but won’t because of the bill that does
not allow foreign universities from taking profits out of India. This creates
many issues because India is trapped until they can build and provide
universities under private owned government.
The problem is there isn’t legislation that is allowing them to be
created. Some states within India have
State Private University act, because the government in that area in being
cooperative unlike in other areas where they try to control and regulate and
where they don’t have the SPU act. What
does this mean for India’s future? It may mean that many of their youth won’t
receive the needed education to come out of poverty which in India is very
high. Also, it’s not helping the country
develop and become more educated because there isn’t enough enrollment in college.
Allowing foreign universities in would
help better their education because there would be more qualified teachers and
they would be able to draw in more students.
http://thediplomat.com/the-pulse/2013/10/02/challenges-and-solutions-in-indian-higher-education/
Name: Sarah Vestrat
Date: 10/3/2013
Time: 4:50 PM
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