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Why foreign universities alone won’t fix India’s higher education crisis

The regulatory framework that oversees the HEIs has such a large labyrinth of rules and regulations that institutions often have to work overtime to cope with the procedures.

India officially opened the door and allowed foreign universities ranking in the top 500 in the world to set up independent branch campuses in the country in November 2023. The development gave them full autonomy to decide their admission processes, fee structures, and curriculum, following the release of the University Grants Commission Regulations under the National Education Policy 2020. 

The University of Southampton was the first to unveil its offshore campus in Gurugram, with the Union education minister and the chief minister of Haryana present at the event, calling it a “landmark step” in India’s higher education journey. This signalled the high priority accorded to the entire scheme of allowing foreign Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) to set up shop in India. About 15 more foreign universities have been given the green signal to set up campuses here.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) (Academic Collaboration between Indian and Foreign Higher Educational Institutions to offer Twinning, Joint Degree and Dual Degree Programmes) Regulations, 2022, strongly envisage that this idea shall promote enhanced academic collaboration with foreign higher educational institutions, leading toward academic and research excellence in the Indian higher educational institutions. 

It was also expected that academic and research collaboration, as well as mobility of students and faculty through joint degree and dual degree programmes, would be highly beneficial for the Indian higher educational institutions to achieve higher global rankings.

Meanwhile, it was noticed that some foreign HEIs entered into unrecognised collaborations with Indian higher educational institutions and entered into franchise arrangements with ed-tech companies to offer degree and diploma programmes in online mode, which were not........

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