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Bulletin No.88 Date: 16th July - 31st July 2010 Announcements ASERF has instituted Dr Stya Paul Young CONTENT Educationists Award’ for honouring Young Educationists who have demonstrated their potential Aspect by making an impact on Indian education. Entry of foreign universities, whom does it benefit? Applications from the eligible scholars are invited for the Award of the year 2010. Click here to download News the prescribed format along with the terms and conditions. 1. New institutes worried about AICTE decision Apeejay Education Society announces the 2. As schools log in to digital learning, on-line assessment the rage 3. School heads' delegation visits University of Malta opening of Apeejay Stya University 4. State to get database on technical education The Apeejay Education Society, with over 40 5. Kalam launches ‘Save Our Daughters India' movement..... years of Excellence in education, announces 6. State plans law to govern CBSE, ICSE schools the initial opening of Apeejay Stya University at 7. Clueless on number of seats, state stalls tech admissions Sohna, Gurgaon. Sponsored by the Apeejay Stya Education Foundation, the University is 8. Draft law unveiled for ‘Innovation Universities' currently located in a sprawling picturesque 9. Innovation universities can have foreign Vice-Chancellors, says draft Bill campus with the state-of-the-art infrastructure. 10. DU colleges put students ahead of UGC's norms for ad hoc teachers Apeejay Stya University will offer a diverse 11. New course on intellectual property rights catalogue of technical, scientific, management 12. Super Fast 'Science and Education Internet' for India by August and liberal arts courses for the academic 13. IIT-Kharagpur kept aside illegal quota for staff session 2010-11. Applicants for admission will 14. India-UK Looking for Cooperation in Skill Development be accepted on the basis of comprehensive 15. Academy of scientific and innovative research bill 2010 introduced in Lok Sabha merit, judged by their academic excellence, 16. India & the UK: Equal partners in education & research their extracurricular achievements, and their utilization of the resources they have had available. As part of the application, the Analysis/Opinion/Innovative Practice University would recognize a number of examination scores to establish academic 1. Education sector undergoing paradigm shift excellence, including AIEEE, GMAT, SAT, and 2. Learning for All SAT II. 3. Minority institutions can't be forced to implement teachers' quota: Court For more, visit: www.apeejay.edu/asu 4. State cannot compel minority institutions to implement quota: Supreme Court 5. A French world-view 6. Apparel management Partnership 7. Before the next step 8. Constructive course Dear Partners, 9. For a sustainable future The Apeejay Stya Education Research Foundation 10. It's tiny at the top (ASERF) invites news, articles, resource material, 11. Time to focus on improving teaching methods opinions and analyses on relevant educational issues that can be highlighted in our by-monthly e-bulletins 12. Choosing the right-fit schools and on the ASERF portal. 13. Merely creating institutes not enough 14. President for strong school education system We request if you could spare a few moments of your valuable time to have a look at our website and guide 15. Scaling up teacher training us on our regular initiatives. 16. Address basics first 17. Quality in education: It's my legal right Editor 18. Try out school vouchers Dr. Mithilesh Kumar Singh Resource Associate Editor 1. National Policy on skill development Pradipta Kumar Sethi Apeejay Stya Education Research Foundation Apeejay Stya House 14 Commercial Complex, Masjid Moth, Greater Kailash, Part – II, New Delhi - 110048 Tel. No. (91 – 11) 29228296 / 97 / 98. Fax o. (91 – 11) 29223326 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.aserf.org.inQuality in education: It's my legal right ASERF E - News Bulletin on EDUCATION ASPECT We did that earlier with industry and then with farming and are now moving into education. In both industry and agriculture, we have not gained as a result of opening up. Entry of foreign universities, whom does it benefit? In fact, we have lost out. Coca Cola came and purchased We need more institutes of higher education that become brands like Thumps Up and Limca. There are no more any brands in their own right, rather than inviting foreign local drinks available in the market now. Our varsities. pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy has also been sold. The ministry of human resource development (HRD) will With Monsanto and other corporations entering into be tabling a bill on the entry of foreign higher educational agriculture, we have increasing suicide of farmers and Institutions to provide education in India in the current dependency on the multinational corporations for seeds, session of parliament, if things go as planned. Going by fertilisers and farming. Today the Indian market is full of the arguments of the ministry, the bill will have to be foreign brands and our manufacturers are working for the welcomed by one and all. MNCs. In a written reply, the minister of state for finance had Instead of producing steel, we export iron and ore. We are informed the Rajya Sabha that during 2008-09, an amount still raw material suppliers. We supply jute and cotton. of $ 2.247 billion was sent out of the country as remittance Today the world is of brands. Only the brand sells. We have towards tuition fees and other expenses of Indian students not been able to create brands. In fact, we were prevented studying abroad. The figures for earlier three years were from doing so. also provided. The amount has doubled every year. At the level of higher education, what we need are more This is no doubt a large sum of money that is moving out institutes of higher education that become brands in their of the country. The entry of foreign universities will prevent own right rather than inviting foreign universities. We can the outflow of that money is one of the arguments in favour easily create them. There is genius here. Foreign of permitting foreign universities. Two questions are universities will be universities with forms and without pertinent here: Is the entry of foreign universities an option substance. to remedy the situation? Will those who are opting to move With their huge capital, they will concentrate on out of the country for higher qualifications decide to stay infrastructure as many private universities do at present. on if the foreign universities pitch their tents here? At least They would charge exorbitant fees making education out of the HRD seems to think so. reach for the majority. There will be style without much Quality education content in what they offer. Students will be marketable The public at large thinks very differently. Those who have commodities without learning skills and attitudes for life and wealth will continue to move out to meet their interests. living. Higher education will be transformed into an industry They are a small minority. It may not also be true that than a service. those who are moving out of the country are in search of Primary purpose quality education, though there are exceptions. As long as the primary purpose of higher education is to The concern of the country should be the majority who do build human resource, it should never be a commercial not have enough of means to study even in the country. venture. Secondly, higher education is to build the nation. But the more basic question is why is it in the last 63 years Foreign providers will never be able to understand the of independent India we have not been able to provide concept of India. How will they then assist in the nation- world class higher education for our people? What building exercise? hindered us from establishing high quality institutions? India should have a brand of its own for higher education if The blame must rest at the doors of the Indian state. The education has to serve national interests. One way of state simply did not permit establishment of high quality creating that brand is to convert our present top institutions institutions. With bureaucratisation of higher education, the like the IITs, IIMs, IISc and our institutes of advance studies mediocre ones flourished and the excellent ones were into universities. Allow them to affiliate top private and suffocated. And yet, in spite of adverse conditions that we public colleges who are ready to remain under their control still have some world class institutions is a tribute to the as long as they meet standards. Such private and public Indian intelligentsia. colleges could gradually grow and can become brands by Our IITs, IIMs, Birla Institute of Technology, Jawaharlal themselves. Nehru University, New Delhi and several other Colleges Instead of encouraging and gradually influencing South are known world wide. We should have allowed them to be Asia through establishment of higher educational world-class and should have encouraged many more to institutions there with state support, it is sad that the reach those levels. We did not do it under the license raj. country is encouraging foreign business houses to enter How to compete in the international arena is a question educational sector. The primary reason why foreign now. The Indian state is convinced that the only way to universities are eager to come to India is to make as much enhance quality and to make higher education meet global money as possible. standards is to open up. E-Bulletin No - 88 2 July 16 – 31, 2010 ASERF E - News Bulletin on EDUCATION The aspect of viewing higher education as a commercial Asked how the government and the DTE gave their activity is a recent phenomenon due to the politician- clearances when the AICTE had not issued the LoA, business nexus.