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Parliamentary Panel in India Proposes ‘Invitation Only’ Model for Foreign Universities

November 14, 2011, 2:23 pm

As India debates what role, if any, foreign universities should play in its higher-education system, a parliamentary committee has proposed that such universities be allowed into the country on an invitation-only basis, reports the Indian Express. The lawmakers said such a move—which is how China and Malaysia approach international-education partnerships, the newspaper says—would help prevent an influx of poor-quality institutions.

An education-ministry official rejected the idea, saying that all institutions that wanted to set up facilities in India would be vetted before being allowed entry. The committee also suggested that 50 percent of the faculty members working on any potential campus established by an overseas university must be from outside India for at least the first 10 years. The ministry also disagreed with that idea.

The committee is reviewing a bill proposing a framework for how foreign universities would operate in India. It is expected to be sent to the cabinet in the next two weeks, the newspaper reports.

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  • bscmath78

    grward, there seem currently to be a general lack of severe penalties for research dishonesty.

    Or for being paid to have your name on a ghostwritten paper:
    http://chronicle.com/article/Medical-Academics-Could-Be/130443/

    Or for “Faking it for the Dean” http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/says-who/43843

    Or for having someone else do your résumé: “Kean U. President Says Errors Were Made, by Others, on His Résumé”
    http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/kean-u-president-says-errors-were-made-by-others-on-his-resume/39902

    Or http://chronicle.com/article/Despite-Occasional-Scandals/129997/#comment-379909553

    Or for the handling of non-academic criminal activity http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2012/02/just-say-no-to-covering-up-rape/

    Of course, it is often hard to legally prove something and in the end, the case may be insufficient: http://www.hhs.gov/dab/decisions/dab1582.html

    At least in the CMC case it appears someone high up has quickly lost their job and the situation made public by the institution.  In fact, in the modern context, it seems remarkably “virtuous” given the likely fallout.

    Plus http://chronicle.com/section/Penn-State/578

  • bscmath78

    Professor Vedder, you wrote, “One of the major rationales for public subsidies of higher education is that colleges are supposed to make students more virtuous–better persons.”

    I know there are some academics like Martha Nussbaum who makes claims for “better persons”, but since when did you start believing them or her? What recent bill “for public subsidies” has had this as a core claim?  And why would you believe it?  How many students, parents or taxpayers have bought this vs. fun, status, prestige, money?

    It seems more likely that the real case of “for public subsidies” is based on claims of economic benefit for individuals, states and countries (not that you believe that, do you?). There isn’t much interest in “virtuous-better persons.”  Yes, you can find some peddling this (see my Liberal Arts Lard related posts in this thread), but it is probably more at private institutions and especially religious institutions that this might be promoted.

    Some academics like to peddle the “better citizen” line, while an ISI test showed civic literacy declined at some institutions as the college education progressed and was generally very poor with little improvement. See my post #13 at:

    http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Modest-Proposal-Searchin/26949/

    Which includes:
    ———————————————————————————————————————-
    It might be worth considering the impact of the findings of the ISI’s report “Failing our Students, Failing America”:

    http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2007/summary_summary.html

    Finding 3, names 4 universities that were in the top 12, in one set of ratings. These 4 universities had seniors who did worse than the freshmen on a simple civics quiz. It suggests that the university experience resulted in worse outcomes. It calls it “negative learning”.

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    Which demonstrates that most do not really care about “better citizens”.

    Since a consistent theme of many of your articles is that students don’t study or learn, and don’t want to, while colleges are content with the situation, while tuition skyrockets, it seems quite odd that you would have ever located “virtue” at college.

  • manoflamancha

    A more objective and persuasive argument would be: “Published in Journal X, and rejected by journals Y and Z”. No one will ever be this honest, however.

  • manoflamancha

    Having given this little pithy tid bit of useful info, I predict you will over do it and go into a rant in the next few minutes.

  • manoflamancha

    Ah, so, end of rant?

  • bscmath78

    manoflamancha, it is easy to predict what has already happened (by your evaluation) about 50 minutes before (based on the current timings).

  • bscmath78

    manoflamancha, I was tilting at windmills at http://chronicle.com/article/White-HouseUniversities/130699/
    “White House and Universities Pledge Greater Effort to Retain Science Students”

    You might enjoy my debate with couchmar http://chronicle.com/article/The-Liberal-Arts-as-Guideposts/130475/#comment-429469049

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  • _perplexed_

    “The damage at CMC has some adverse spillover effects for higher education generally.”

    I think only as much spillover as you can manufacture.  Surely every advertising agency in America is wondering what the fuss is about.

  • bscmath78

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