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PROPHE Summary (Chunyue Zhang): Indian politicians have been debating a foreign university bill involving regulations on operation and quality of foreign investment that opens up higher education institutions. While the liberals favor the bill, the opponents are concerned that the motives of foreign private investors often are either to profiteer or to sway students ideologically. Important provisions of the bill include: 1) recognition from the University Grants Commission (UGC) for any foreign institutions in order to operate; 2) quality control and content sensitive to Indian cultures and languages; 3) penalties on illegal operations by an unapproved foreign institution; and 4) detailed regulations on institutional finance. However, certain reputable universities will be exempted from these provisions and be assumed to ensure "prevention of commercialization". For the full story, see The Indian Express, July 19, 2007, "How
not to get Harvard," by M. R. Madhavan. PROPHE Observation (Daniel C. Levy): The Indian foreign university bill is another example of how the
government deals with the private surge and cross-border higher education.
However, the Indian case is particularly interesting, given its tradition
of state control over private higher education as well as its still-preserved
caste system. Given the view that foreign private providers operate
as profit-makers or brain-washers--a view often held in other countries
as well--, the Indian government cannot just look away but must decide
whether to pass the bill and have an ongoing monitoring system or to
defeat the bill and thus have limits on the openness of its higher education.
If for the former, this Bill will be Indian first move in opening up
its country to the international cross-border higher education. And
predictably, several for-profit corporations such as Laureate Education,
Inc. may find their new niche industry in Indian higher education.
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