Republic of India. a Study of the Educational System of India
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 054 021 SO 001 525 AUTHOR Sweeney, Leo J. TITLE Republic of India.A Study of the Educational System of India & Guide to the Academic Placement of Students from India in United States Educational Institutions. INSTITUTION American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Athens, Ohio. PUB DATE 70 NOTE 395p.; World Education Series AVAILABLE FROM Executive Secretary, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, One Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. 20036 ($1.00) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.65 HC-$13.16 DESCRIPTORS Academic Records, Administrator Guides, *Admission (School), *Comparative Education, Credentials, *Degree Requirements, Degrees (Titles), Educational History, Educational Trends, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, General Education, Higher Education, *School Systems, Secondary Education, Student Evaluation, *Student Placement, Technical Education, Vocational Education IDENTIFIERS Educational Systems, *India ABSTRACT The purpose of this publication, as in the case of the other "World Education Series", is to provide a guide for the use of admissions officers and others in the admission and placement of the students of a particular country for study in educational institutions in the United States. Specifically it is hoped that this volume will furnish the basis of sounder assessment of the quantity and the quality aspects of Indian educational institutions, and the Indian student and his academic record. The first seven chapters provide a description of the historic and contemporary educational scene. The last two chapters deal with problems peculiar to Indian credentials and provide the focus for the entire work, the specific placement recommendations based on various credentials and degrees from Indian institutions. Thirteen appendices provide 240 pages of information for evaluating the students' credentials, e.g., list of institutions and samples of credential forms.(Author/DJB) CD --1- REPUBLIC OF INDIA LJ A Study of the Educational System of India ( and Guide to the Academic Placement of Students from India in United States Educational Institutions 1971 WORLD EDUCATION SERIES COUNCIL ON EVALUATION OF FOREIGN STUDENT CREDENTIALS Member Organizations and Their Representatives American Association of CollegiateRegistrars and Admission OfficersMrs. Claudine Waterbury Fisher (Secretary of Council), Associate Registrar, Colo- rado State University, Fori Collins, CO 80521; Leo J. Sweeney, Director of Admissions and Registrar, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, 64110; Robert J. Hefting (Editor,World Education Series),Director of International Admissions, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80302; John Walker, Assoc. Program Officer, Foreign Faculty and Student Programs, International Studies and World Affairs, State University of New York, 8 Thurlow Terrace, Albany, NY 12201 American Association of Junior CollegesJack C. Gernhart, Assistant to the Director, American Association of Junior. Colleges, One Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, DC 20036 Association of American CollegesEric Wormald, Vice President, Association of American Colleges, 1815 R Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20009 Association of Graduate SchoolsChairman: Robert E. Tschan, Assistant Dean, Graduate School, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 Council of Graduate SchoolsCarroll L. Miller, Dean, Graduate School, Har- vard University, Washington, DC 20001 Institute of International EducationGloria Ilic, Institute of International Edu- cation, 309 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017 National Association for Foreign Student AffairsClifford Sjogren, Assistant Director of Admissions, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104; Lee Wilcox, Director of Admissions, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Observer Organizations and Their Representatives American Council on EducationElizabeth Shiver, Staff Assistant, Commission on International Education; American Council on Education, One Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, DC 20036 College Entrance ExaMination BoardSanford C. Jameson, College Entrance Examination Board, 888 Seventh Ave., New York, NY /0019 U.S. Department of StateAgency for. International DevelopmentHattie Jar- mon, Chief, Academic Advisory Branch, Program Division, Office of Inter- national Training, Agency for International DevelopMent, Department of State, Washington, DC 20523 U.S. DepartmentofState7--Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs--'- Marita Houlihan', Chief, Special Programs Division, Office of Program Development and Evaluation. us. Office -of Educatiom-LCharles C Hauch, Institute of International Studies, Office of EduCation, ROom- 3082 ROB Building, 7th and D Streets, S.W., Washington, DC 20202. ' University of the State of New York, State Education DepartmentMiss Marion Hughes, Associate-in EducatiOnal:ExChange, Office of Comparative Education and EduCational Exchange Center for International Programs and Compara- tive Studies, New York State Education Department:Albany,.NY 12224 N O Lc. scp O w REPUBLIC OF INDIA A Study of the Educational System of India and Guide to the Academic Placement of Students from India in United States Educational Institutions 1970 LEO J. SWEENEY Director of Admissions and Registrar University of MissouriKansas City and Fulbright Lecturer-Consultant U. S. Educational Foundation in India 1967-68 and 1969 Placement Recommendations Approved by The Council on Evaluation of Foreign Student Credentials July 30-31, 1970 3 Admissions, Evaluation and PlacementJohn Walker, Assoc. Program Officer el Preface CONTEXT FOR THIS VOLUME Perhaps the background out of which this volume has been written should be described at least briefly.Such a description may lead to a greater understanding by the reader of the admission and placement re- commendations as well as of the text itself. Together with my family, I was privileged to spend my sabbatical leave during the academic year 1967-68 as a Fulbright Lecturer-Consult- ant to the United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI). My principal assignment was to establish student advising offices in the six largest cities in India (Bangalore, Bombay, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Madras and New Delhi) for the thousands of Indian students who each year consider study in the United States especially at the graduate level. The nature of this assignment gave me a truly unique opportunity to travel the length and the breadth of the Republic of India;to visit scores of universities, colleges, higher institutes, research laboratories, secondary and primary schools and other educational institutions; to meet with educational leaders at all levels within that country; and otherwise to have an introduction in depth to the social, cultural, govern- mcntal, religious and educational aspects of India that perhaps few Americans have been so fortunate to have in that period of time. Yet I was further fortunate to have the chance to return to India during 1969 primarily to evaluate the USEFI Evaluation, Testing and Advising Project approximately one year after the majority of the student advising offices had been opened. A secondary objective, but one espec- ially germane to this volume, was the visiting of additional Indian insti- tutions and the seeking of additional information and reference material on the educational system of that country. The reader may be int rested in knowing about the "tests" to which much of the material in this volume has been submitted. A paper on "Evaluation of Indian Higher Education" was presented at both the 1969 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Regis- trars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) in Dallas and the National iii iv REPUBLIC OF INDIA Association for Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA) 1969 Conference in Boston. The reactions to those presentations and to the paper as printed inthe Summer 1969 issue of College and University(the AACRAO Journal) have been invaluable to me in refining the mountain of information and data available on the Indian educational system. Two admissions workshops also have contributed in this respect. The Third Hawaiian Workshop sponsored by AACRAO and NAFSA in coopera- tion with the East-West Center in Hawaii in December 1969 included India in its in-depth study of certain Asian countries. The reactions of the workshop participants to the material I presented, as the resource person on India, and the experience gained in assisting in the writing and editing of the Third Hawaiian Workshop Report have contributed substantially to the development of this volume.In a similar way the "mini-workshop" based on the Third Hawaiian Workshop that was con- ducted in Chicago in March 1970 under the auspices of AACRAO, NAFSA, the College Entrance Examination Board and the Institute for International Education served as a sounding boar 1 for facts and conclusions about the Indian educational system. AN OFFER TO-CREDENTIAL EVALUATORS As Dr. Clyde Vroman so aptly has pointed out in the preface to his monumental work on Japan in this World Education Series, "only the crucial test of extensive, practical use" can reveal how well a volume such as this serves its purposes. Because of my personal interest in this re- pect, I would welcome in the case of India (as Dr. Vroman does in the case of Japan) reports on any major problems encountered in the evalua- tion of Indian credentials which cannot be resolved by the use of this book, so that additional information and assistance may be provided to the U.S. admissions community