Foreign Universities :In or Out of india

Foreign Universities : In or Out

Recently govt. of India has approved the entry of foreign universities in Indian education system and set up their campus inside india. Is it going to improve the level of education specially in the technical field of India or going to further step-up the brain drain as the youths having the education from those and accustomed to culture of them doesn’t want to stay back in india.

Up to some extent the second point explained earlier is right. As our Indian society is still under the hands of fundamentalists at the small town medium class level. Still caste prevails in the roots of northern Indian family. Still there are people who never accept an open relationship between a boy and a girl at teenager level. A lot has been changed at the metropolitan level. But taking into account of this factor and having the fear that direct exposure to western civilisation would enhance brain drain is completely futile. It’s we, who are either the saviours or the destroyers and exposure to other cultures just enrich us.

On the front of education, fee structure and paying to teachers, it’s very true that Indian professors are getting far less than that of foreign univs. And the fees of those are much beyond the reach of a normal middle class Indian. But these matters can be ploughed. There are a lot of Indians who are very much interested in working and teaching in india if they are supported by the govt. First thing is the infrastructure and second is the security. Now comes the question of salary and fee structure, fee structure can be designed such that students having the parent’s income below a particular level will be supported by the govt. This can be effectively done after the introduction of the UID. Coming to salary type, either it will be an average to Indian and foreign level of salary. As India is relatively cheaper in context to develop countries, low salary w.r.t them is ample for Indian university.

Above all, these establishments not only lessen the communication gap which is prevailing right now in the system of “collaboration” of Indian institutes with foreign ones. With the advent of the curriculum and education structure they used to follow, Indian education system will learn a lot and get modified keeping its root firm in Indian culture. At now where only a few who get the chance to be exposed to those environments at the undergraduate level by “student exchange programmes” but then a lot are exposed to that as today in case of IIT system.

Well, nothing is going to be decided on an individual perspective. Its the majority that matters in democracy.