{"id":221328,"date":"2023-01-06T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221328"},"modified":"2023-01-06T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:32:21","slug":"ugc-unveils-draft-norms-to-allow-foreign-universities-to-set-up-campuses-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ugc-unveils-draft-norms-to-allow-foreign-universities-to-set-up-campuses-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"UGC unveils draft norms to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>UGC unveils draft norms to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 6th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University Grants Commission has announced draft regulations for foreign universities setting up campuses in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key provisions of draft regulations for foreign universities setting up campuses in India?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Eligibility: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A foreign university with a rank among the top 500 global rankings or a foreign educational institution of repute in its home jurisdiction can apply to the UGC to set up a campus in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Application process<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The application process will be web-based, with the UGC going to maintain a separate portal for receiving proposals to set up campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The application will be considered by a standing committee appointed by the UGC which will submit its recommendations within 45 days after examining the institution\u2019s credibility, programmes offered, their potential to strengthen educational opportunities in India and proposed academic infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Subsequently, within 45 days, the UGC may grant in-principle approval to the foreign institution to set up campuses in India within two years. The initial approval will be for 10 years which can be extended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Admission procedure:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Foreign universities setting up campuses in India <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can evolve their own admission process and criteria to admit domestic and foreign students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fee structure<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The campuses will have the autonomy to decide their fee structure, and will face no caps that are imposed on Indian institutions. But the fee should be reasonable and transparent. It will also have the autonomy to recruit faculty and staff from India and abroad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mode of teaching:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The courses to be offered cannot be online and open and distance learning mode. The qualifications awarded to the students on the Indian campus should have equivalence with those awarded by the institutions in their country of origin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cross-border movement of funds:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Foreign higher education institutions will also be allowed cross-border movement of funds and maintenance of foreign currency accounts, mode of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">payments, remittance, repatriation, and sale of proceeds, under the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/foreign-exchange-management-act-fema\/\">Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA),1999<\/a><\/strong> and its Rules and an audit report will have to be submitted to the UGC.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cUGC unveils draft norms to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India\u201d published in The Hindu on 6th January 2023 What is the News? University Grants Commission has announced draft regulations for foreign universities setting up campuses in India. What are the key provisions of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ugc-unveils-draft-norms-to-allow-foreign-universities-to-set-up-campuses-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UGC unveils draft norms to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-221328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700225844},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221328","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}