India opens door for foreign educational institutions
Foreign Education
Foreign Education: Though this is welcome news which is good for many a student, nevertheless, long-term results may not look too good. University Grants Commission has taken a significant initiative opening the doors of India to the top 500 universities of the world. They will now be able to set up their campus in India.
In the year 2022, approximately five lakh students of India have reached abroad to study. Foreign studies are many times more expensive than in India. Indians are forced to spend crores of dollars of their hard-earned money on the education of their children.
Out of these lakhs of students, most of the students try to stay abroad and think of making a fortune by staying there. This becomes the main source of brain drain from India. Now when foreign universities will open their campus in India, this brain drain will definitely reduce and the country’s money will also be saved.
The Commission believes that the best education systems in the world will get connected to India by establishing campuses in India, the benefits of which can be availed by the students of our neighboring countries too. It is fine to list all these benefits but have our educationists seen the other side of the coin too?
The first point of its second aspect asks – What will happen to the universities running in India? These universities have remained imitators of the British and Americans for the last one and a half to two hundred years. Won’t they stop? Why would then parents, who have money send their children to our Indian universities? People will all run after foreign universities then.
This New Education System In Our Country
Secondly, these foreign universities will have full autonomy in setting fees, courses, admission rules, and faculty appointments. Will they think about the interest of India first or the interest of their own country? Thirdly, because of this new education system in our country, will there not be high-low discrimination among the young generation in India?
Fourthly, won’t the entire education system of our country then try to become a complete imitator? The fifth thing to think over is – What will be the medium of education in foreign educational institutions? Will they allow Indian languages to be the medium? No, they will not at all allow this. What will be its result in the short and long terms? Brain drain will also not stop.
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The most significant point here is this also that it has been eight years since the formation of this BJP government, but the new education policy is not yet come to the ground of Indian reality. No Indianness or originality has been incorporated into it yet. Unless the highest studies and research are done through Indian languages and the monopoly of English medium education is not ended, this new initiative cannot prove to be actually helpful, if not too harmful.
