This month, the University Grants Commission (UGC) is expected to release a draft of regulations for public comment that will significantly alter the higher education landscape by allowing foreign universities to establish campuses in India, allowing Indian universities to open facilities abroad, and tightening regulations to ensure better quality controls at private institutions.
By March, the feedback will have been processed. The new regulations will probably fix the problematic areas and offer international colleges more control over topics like tuition, course design, faculty recruiting, and academic matters. On the repatriation of funds, it will offer a “middle ground.”
When the rules are prepared, India’s diplomats will distribute them to overseas universities. Indian colleges would be able to establish campuses abroad under a different set of standards. They are currently prohibited from doing so. The best IITs might be the first in India to do so.
“The underlying theme and philosophy behind all these regulations are as reflected in the NEP. They are all aimed at allowing considerable autonomy to the higher education stakeholders but with due accountability and quality ensured. Therefore, they will be ‘light but tight’ regulations and I am confident it will bring positive and big changes in the higher education system,” the UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said.
The new regulations state that in order to enrol international students, an institution must achieve a specific level on the National Institute Ranking Framework or National Assessment & Accreditation Council rating.
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