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May 28, 2008
India Seeks Help From Britain in Opening World-Class University
New Delhi — India has asked Britain for help in setting up a world-class central university in what one local newspaper reported is the first such request for foreign assistance in almost 50 years. India has not asked for foreign help to establish a university since it sought assistance in the late 1950s and early 1960s from the Soviet Union, Britain, and West Germany to create some of the older Indian Institutes of Technology, the newspaper, The Telegraph, said.
Last year India’s prime minister announced that the country would set up 14 world-class central universities to compete with institutions like Harvard and Cambridge. The locations of the universities were announced in March.
“We want the help in the form of skill development, faculty support, and necessary training,” said D. Purandeswari, India’s junior higher-education minister, according to a statement issued after meetings this week with Bill Rammell, Britain’s higher-education minister.
Indian officials were looking to settle details of the collaboration as soon as possible because the new academic session in India starts in July, but Mr. Rammell did not commit to any timeline. Further talks to iron out the details are scheduled to be held in July in London. —Shailaja Neelakantan
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this is ridiculous. Get Britain to screw India up, again.
— Ramrahim May 28, 01:47 PM #
How can you have 14 new universities, the likes of Harvard and Cambridge, created instantly by anyone?
— Raymond Cox May 28, 04:19 PM #
If India wants to compete with Harvard and Cambridge why not ask for help from Yale and Oxford!
— Bill May 28, 04:27 PM #
All it takes is independence, vision and money (lots of it). William Rainey Harper, John D. Rockefeller, and a bunch of prominent Chicagoans did a pretty good job a few years back!
— John Plampin May 28, 04:37 PM #
I fail to see why India’s reaching out to Britain enlists such sophomoric comments. There is much Britain can offer that India needs and wants…seems like a mutually beneficial relationsip to me. The real question is how does the US fit into any of this since so many top students and scholars leave India for our universities.
— Barry May 28, 04:43 PM #
Good. The more positive collaboration between countries, the better.
— Jeff Kish May 28, 07:34 PM #
In many walks of life, the US produced less elitist and more egalitarian models. I hope world-class is not being equated with elitist. India already made the collosal mistake of creating a handful of world-class institutions immediately after its independence from Britain; the resources that took could have provided for basic literacy for tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people. So much for the departing rulers being replaced with another bunch of local, elitist rulers.
— CR May 28, 09:29 PM #
We should be thankful to Britain for many things, especially for English Language. Just because of this fact, many Indians are able to immigrate to other English speaking countries and prosper both professionally and academically. A collabration with US or U.K will only bring the best of both countries, provided the government does not micromanage the effort.
— Roy V Thomson May 29, 01:13 PM #