{"id":203112,"date":"2022-09-01T20:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203112"},"modified":"2022-09-02T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T03:28:09","slug":"level-playing-field-ugc-must-give-indian-universities-the-same-freedoms-its-planning-to-give-foreign-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/level-playing-field-ugc-must-give-indian-universities-the-same-freedoms-its-planning-to-give-foreign-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Level playing field: UGC must give Indian universities the same freedoms it\u2019s planning to give foreign universities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Level playing field: UGC must give Indian universities the same freedoms it\u2019s planning to give foreign universities<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0published in\u00a0<strong>The Times of India<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>1<sup>st<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues linked with education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance:\u00a0Higher education reforms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context: This article discusses about the problems faced by Indian Universities compared to foreign universities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UGC and the education ministry are reportedly finalising regulations for foreign universities\u2019 India campuses.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to offer \u201cnear full freedom\u201d on determining academic course structure and curriculum, faculty hiring and salaries, and even fees.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Why should Indian universities in India not enjoy these freedoms? <\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Foreign universities are concerned with over-regulation.<\/p>\n<p>However, Indian universities have to actually function under the restrictive regime.<\/p>\n<p>If UGC wants to reform the system it must apply the changes to all players \u2013 domestic and foreign.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the problems associated with Indian Universities?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Indian universities, both public and private, have to negotiate their way through a bulk of rules and regulations, framed by UGC, AICTE, NMC, BCI, state governments.<\/p>\n<p>These rules apply for starting new courses, sanctioning student intake, and various academic and administrative operations.<\/p>\n<p>No Western country or even China makes its education institutions subject to so many rules and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The parliamentary standing committee on education has found <strong>UGC and other regulators to be overregulating <\/strong>in their approach.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a growing demand-supply gap in quality higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cLevel playing field: UGC must give Indian universities the same freedoms it\u2019s planning to give foreign universities\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a01st September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues linked with education Relevance:\u00a0Higher education reforms Context: This article discusses about the problems faced by Indian Universities compared to foreign&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/level-playing-field-ugc-must-give-indian-universities-the-same-freedoms-its-planning-to-give-foreign-universities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Level playing field: UGC must give Indian universities the same freedoms it\u2019s planning to give foreign universities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-203112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704882389},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}