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India set to host the `best' of the world
Foreign Education Bill in all probability will be voted into law by the monsoon session. Paving the way for foreign education providers to set up campuses and offer degrees in India, the Union Cabinet on March 15, 2010 unanimously approved the Bill.
“This is a milestone which will enhance choices, increase competition and benchmark quality. A larger revolution than even in the telecom sector awaits us,” said Kapil Sibal, Union minister for human resource development (MHRD).
The Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialization) Bill will allow foreign universities to invest at least 51 per cent of the total capital expenditure needed to establish the institute in India. Such institutes will be granted deemed university status under Section 3 of the Universities Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956. |
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Ignou announces new programmes for different abled on its 21st convocation
Delivering the Convocation Speech at the 21st Convocation of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), professor S K Joshi, former Director General, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) exhorted IGNOU authorities to make human values a part of the education of every student.
In his report vice chancellor of IGNOU, V N Rajasekharan Pillai announced new programmes in Mental Retardation, Visual Impairment, Hearing Impairment as well as M Ed in Special Education and M Sc in Counseling and Family Therapy. |
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