{"id":221460,"date":"2023-01-07T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221460"},"modified":"2023-01-07T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T14:24:00","slug":"what-are-the-regulations-announced-for-foreign-universities-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-are-the-regulations-announced-for-foreign-universities-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the regulations announced for foreign universities in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cWhat are the regulations announced for foreign universities in India?\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 7th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Higher <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education Regulator University Grants Commission(UGC) has released draft regulations to allow foreign universities to enter India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key provisions of draft regulations to allow foreign universities to enter India?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_221464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221464\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-221464 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/UGC-1-2.jpg?resize=369%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"draft regulations to allow foreign universities\" width=\"369\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/UGC-1-2.jpg?w=698&amp;ssl=1 698w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/UGC-1-2.jpg?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-221464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Indian Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ugc-unveils-draft-norms-to-allow-foreign-universities-to-set-up-campuses-in-india\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What safeguards has the UGC proposed in these draft regulations to secure the interests of Indian students?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The draft states that the UGC will have the right to inspect the campuses at any time. They will not be outside the purview of anti-ragging and other criminal laws.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UGC can also impose a penalty and\/ or suspend\/ withdraw its approval at any time if the university\u2019s activities or academic programmes are against the interest of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The regulations also require foreign universities to submit audit reports and annual reports to the UGC certifying that their operations in India are in compliance with FEMA 1999 and other relevant government policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why did previous attempts to allow foreign university campuses in India fail?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Governments in the past have made several attempts to enact legislation for the entry, operation and regulation of foreign universities in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first was in 1995 when a Bill was introduced but could not go forward. In 2005-06, too, the draft law could only go up to the Cabinet stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then in 2010, the then government brought the Foreign Educational Institutions Bill which failed to get enough support in the Parliament. The bill lapsed in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the main reservations against foreign universities operating in India was that they would raise the cost of education (high tuition fees, faculty poaching from public universities), rendering it out of reach for a large part of the population.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>How does this proposal relate to the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NEP 2020 says that top universities in the world will be facilitated to operate in India and a legislative framework facilitating such entry will be put in place, and such universities will be given special dispensation regarding regulatory, governance and content norms on par with other autonomous institutions of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a way, the draft regulations released only seek to institutionalize the NEP\u2019s vision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWhat are the regulations announced for foreign universities in India?\u201d published in Indian Express on 7th January 2023 What is the News? Higher Education Regulator University Grants Commission(UGC) has released draft regulations to allow foreign universities to enter India. What are the key provisions of draft regulations&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-are-the-regulations-announced-for-foreign-universities-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are the regulations announced for foreign universities 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":[10500],"class_list":["post-221460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704846145},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221460","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=221460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}