Indian politicians of both NDA and UPA are very keen that foreign Universities should open their shops in India.
They expect collaboration/joint venture/partnership arrangements with Indian private Universities.
Indian M.L.As and M.Ps both of the ruling party and the opposition parties have opened their degree shops in the guise of DEEMED UNIVERSITIES and AUTONOMOUS COLLEGES. They mint money in their own names or in the names of their family members, Adding a foreign university as a collaborator adds prestige to their teaching shops and raise the prices of the degrees sold by them.
The legislators will not like the foreign Universities to open their own degree sales show rooms directly without collaborations and partnerships.
The foreign Universities may also find the ideas very attractive because they can avoid tax laws in their own countries. They do not want to face the same regulation which they face in their own countries, to be enforced in India for the joint ventures.
They also will not like Indian courts to interfere. They want to get their own arbitrators into the fray of disputes.
HOW THE INDIAN STUDENTS ARE GOING TO GAIN?
We need not say that Indian students want double degrees, 100% placements, easy visas and what not. There will be two crowds in the queue.
The first crowd will be ready to cough any amount which the foreign Universities and the collaborators demand as fees. The only condition will be attendance should not become compulsory. Even if made compulsory, bollywood and holliwood films should be shown in the air-conditioned class rooms. Nothing serious should take place.
The second crowd will want loans to be arranged for studies. Of course, the Indian collaborators and the Banks will readily oblige for a commission.
Both the crowds will want technical degrees without technical syllabus or technical studies. Computers and internets in the labs should be allowed to be used for chatting and downloading porno. This type of expectations will be convenient for the foreign Universities also, because they need not bring-in committed and talented subject experts as Professors. The foreign Universities will prefer to spend more amount on convocation gowns and publicity arrangements, rather than on paying the teaching staff.
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