Umesh,
My goodness! You drew some rapid conclusion and started on western
universities taking over Indian universities.
Is that what the Assam College teachers were talking about? Or were they
worried about private sector taking over the colleges from the government
(public sector)? What is MNC in education?
Dilipda
umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Interesting. Ofcourse foreign univs and people and their views are always
viewed with suspciion. Thats why Indian govt (or perhaps even US one) does not
allow foreign owned media to operate in the country.
Univs shape public minds and opinions. So teaching that Hindu religion is
full of myth (as per Western univs) and that freedom of speech includes
allowing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad --may not go down well in many developing
nations. Thus, cultural adaptation of Western univ courses is a must. Just like
McDonalds have a completely vegan/vegetarian joint at some Indian cities --
Western Univs have to become Glocal (Global -but Local).
Also, NO western univ can really teach in India what they teach in their own
country --when it comes to advanced or cutting edge research in sciences etc
---since it is top secret info. I cannot imagine Stanford or MIT doing the
defense related research in India -which they do in US -- the US security
organizations would not allow that. So Indians get a watered down version of
the latest research. Although even this may be good - to get lower level
research related jobs into India -- like si being done by MNCs in India now.
On the other hand, 100% foreign ownership of univs (we already have a number
of B-grade ones in India) might see local private efforts in India go downhill.
Though competetion is generally good . If Indian univs beat the foreign ones on
Indian turf they can get an image useful in setting up operations in the
West!! Govt univs ofcourse have only a "Few Good Men/Women"
Umesh
Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The following is from the Assam Tribune. The conference was attended by
college teachers.
Was the word 'globalisation' wrongly used in place of 'privatization'? Where
is the fear - private sector owning and running the institutions of higher
learning, or multinational corporations like GE, IBM, Sony, Tata or Mittal
running the institutions?
If someone can explain in the net, I'd appreciate.
The private sector has been investing in education in other Indian states for
a while. How are those colleges faring - in quality of education and
affordability?
Dilip Deka
STATE
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Globalisation of education harmful to poor students
>From Our Correspondent
DHUBRI, Feb 2 The 3rd zonal conference of ACTAs west zone consisting of
ACTAs units of Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon and Chirang districts, was held
on January 22 on the BN College premises of Dhubri. The conference was
attended, besides delegates from the colleges of the four districts, by Jyoti
Nath Gogoi, president, ACTA, Dr Apurba Kr Das, GS, ACTA and Ramesh Ch Barman,
central observer.
The delegate meeting was held under the presidentship of Nagendra Nath Roy,
president of the zonal committee. The meeting observed two minute silence at
the beginning in the memory of educationists, litterateur, artists, political
leaders and victims of extremists mayhem during the last one year. Addressing
the session, Dr A K Das gave a detail account of the ACTA activities in
connection with implementation of pension scheme for college employees, payment
of arrrears, placement in senior and selection grade of teachers, filling up of
vacant posts in the colleges, etc. The secretarial report was distributed by
Sheikh Hedayetullah, secretary of the zonal committee. The conference adopted
seven resolutions.
Earlier, a seminar on Impact of globalisation on higher education with special
reference to North East region was held which was formally inaugurated by G K
Srivastava, retired HoD English deptt, BN college. It was conducted by TN
Chakravarty, former vice-president of ACTA and the main speaker Abdul Mannan,
lecturer, Statistics Deptt, GU. In his deliberation Mannan drew a gloomy
picture of higher education in India in the future if globalisation is allowed
to grasp the field of education. According to him MNCs treat education as a
consumer commodity. If they succeed it will give them a market of 4700000 crore
rupee-business Higher education will be costly and our poor students will be
unable to afford it. By signing the WTO by the Government of India in 1994, it
has already stepped into the death-trap of the GATS (General Agreement in trade
Services).
Government has started avoiding its social responsibility in education by not
filling vacant posts and by imposing ever new conditions in appointment of
teachers. In NE region, which is already educationally backward, globalisation
of education will bring doom to oue aspiring students, Mannan said.
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