Internationalization of Indian Higher Education

2012 ◽  
pp. 126-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
World Trade Organization Agreement ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Internationalization Of Education ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
Import And Export ◽  
Political Economic

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) makes provisions for the internationalization of higher education. India signed the World Trade Organization agreement, including GATS, in 1994. GATS and WTO have the potential to impact the import and export of higher education within India. At the present time, India has begun making appropriate changes in legislation to formalize trade in the higher education sector. This chapter narrates the experiences of India in the internationalization of education. The chapter examines political, economic, socio-cultural, academic, and political issues of cross-nation education in India. The analysis is based on document surveys and critical analyses of the policies of India regarding the internationalization of education.

Accreditation and ranking of higher education institutions (HEIs): review, observations and recommendations for the Indian higher education system

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerald Ozee Fernandes ◽  
Balgopal Singh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Ranking ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian Higher Education

PurposeThe higher education system has been entrusted globally to provide quality education, especially to the youth, and equip them with required skills and capabilities. The visionaries and policymakers of the countries around the world have been working relentlessly to improve the standard of the higher education system by establishing national and global accreditation and ranking bodies and expecting measuring performance through setting up accreditation and ranking parameters. This paper focuses on the review of Indian university accreditation and ranking system and determining its efficacy in improving academic quality for achieving good position in global quality accreditation and ranking.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed exploratory research approach to know about the accreditation and ranking issues of Indian higher education institutions to overcome the challenges for being globally competitive. The accreditation and ranking parameters and score of leading Indian universities was collected from secondary data sources. Similarly, the global ranking parameters and scores of these Indian universities with top global universities was explored. The performance gaps of Indian university in global academic quality parameter is assessed by comparing it with scores of global top universities. Further, each domestic and global accreditation and ranking parameters have been taken up for discussion.FindingsThe study identified teaching and learning, research and industry collaboration as common parameter in the accreditation and ranking by Indian and global accreditation and ranking body. Furthermore, the study revealed that Indian accreditation and ranking body assess leniently on parameters and award high scores as compared to rigorous global accreditation and ranking practice. The study revealed that “research” and “citations” are important parameters for securing prestigious position in global ranking, this is the reason Indian universities are trailing. The study exposed that Indian academic fraternity lack prominence in research, publication and citations as per need of global accreditation and ranking standards.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation of this study is that it focused only on few Indian and global accreditation and ranking bodies. The future implication of this study will be the use of methodology designed in this study for comparing accreditation and ranking bodies’ parameters of different continents and countries in different economic development stages i.e. emerging and developed economies to know the disparity and shortcomings in their higher education system.Practical implicationsThe article is a review and comparison of national and global accreditation and ranking parameters. The article explored the important criteria and key indicators of accreditation and ranking that would provide an important and meaningful insight to academic institutions of the emerging economies of the world to develop its competitiveness. The study contributed to the literature on identifying benchmark for improving academic and higher education institution quality. This study would be further helpful in fostering new ideas toward setting up of contemporary globally viable and acceptable academic quality standard.Originality/valueThis is possibly the first study conducted with novel methodology of comparing the Indian and global accreditation and ranking parameters to identify the academic quality performance gap and suggesting ways to attain academic benchmark through continuous improvement activity and process for global competitiveness.

scholarly journals Internationalization of higher education system in Republic of Kazakhstan: problems, trends, solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
G. Akbayeva ◽  
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N. Ramashov ◽  
A. Ramashova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Internationalization Of Education

In this article the authors investigated the transformation and integration of the higher education system of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as a new approach to solving the problems of education in the world practice caused the need for a radical revision of organizational, structural, ideological aspects, updating the content of education, increasing the quality requirements for training specialists in accordance with the current stage of development of Kazakhstan society and global integration processes in the world educational space. In this regard, the article also analyzes the actualization and the problem of professional training of foreign students in the main areas of higher education: the solutions to such problems as the internationalization of education and the coordination of the activities of the legislative and executive bodies of states in the field of education, and the possibility of organizing a unified system of continuing education and improving the quality of education at all its levels were considered. The authors determined the genesis of the development of professional training of foreign students in higher education institutions of Kazakhstan, motivated by the dependence of education on the needs of society, its economy and national and cultural characteristics; as well as the dependence of the choice of the country of study on the “intellectuality” of the environment, and also made a forecast of the prospects for the development of professional training of foreign students and the internationalization of higher education in general.

scholarly journals Uma pós graduação a distância: internacionalização e networking global / A Distance Post-Graduation: Internationalization and Global Networking

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Siderly do Carmo Dahle de Almeida ◽  
Alvaro Martins Fernandes Junior ◽  
Willian Victor Kendrick de Matos Silva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Internationalization Of Education ◽  
Globalization Of Education

ABSTRACTThrough education it is possible to build a fairer and democratic society, strengthening the overcoming of social inequalities. The higher education institutions can contemporary contribute to the internationalization of education proces-ses, observing the existing demand in other countries. The aim of this paper is to present the possibilities of a private insti-tution of higher education located in Maringa - Parana - Brazil, by offering graduate courses in the distance geographically dispersed  students  around  the  world  who  speak  the  Portuguese  language.  The  presented  model  enable  students  to  attend classes, participate in activities that take place throughout the course and come to Brazil only once, at the end of the whole process, to realize tests and present an article. From the perspective of the strategies aiming internationalization, the techno-logical expansion is considered one of the most important tools to allow the globalization of education. The use of the Inter-net  in  distance  learning,  allows  the  development  of  learning  communities  in  higher  education,  that  is,  the  formation  of networks. The theoretical foundation of this study is based on Green (2008), Levy (1996, 1999), Castells (2007), Sen (2000).RESUMOPor meio da educação é possível construir uma sociedade mais justa e democrática, fortalecendo a superação das desigualdades sociais. As Instituições de Ensino Superior podem contemporaneamente contribuir para os processos de internacionalização do ensino, observando-se a demanda existente em outros países. O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar as possibilidades de uma instituição privada de ensino superior localizada em Maringá - Paraná - Brasil, ao oferecer cursos de pós-graduação na modalidade a distância a alunos dispersos geograficamente pelo mundo que falem a língua portuguesa. O modelo apresentado torna possível que os alunos assistam as aulas, participem das atividades que ocorrem ao longo do curso e se desloquem ao Brasil apenas uma vez ao final de todo o processo para realizar prova presencial e apresentar artigo como trabalho de conclusão de curso. Sob o prisma das estratégias que visam a internacionalização, a expansão tecnológica é considerada um dos mais importantes instrumentos para permitir a globalização da educação. O uso da Internet na modalidade à distancia, permite o desenvolvimento das comunidades de aprendizagem no ensino superior, ou seja, a formação de redes. A fundamentação teórica deste estudo está alicerçada em Green (2008), Levy (1996, 1999), Castells (2007), Sen (2000).

scholarly journals China’s ‘Going Global’ Policy: Transnational Production Subsidies Under the WTO SCM Agreement

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-863
Author(s):  
Victor Crochet ◽  
Vineet Hegde
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Trade Law ◽  
International Trade Law ◽  
The World ◽  
World Trade Organization Agreement ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Production Subsidies ◽  
Shed Light

ABSTRACT As China is increasingly ‘going global’, foreign direct investment under its Belt and Road Initiative is becoming heavily scrutinized. One of the concerns is that Chinese companies establishing themselves in third countries would be unfairly advantaged by the financing they receive under China’s expansionist strategy. This financing gives rise to a situation that had long been described as ‘unrealistic’, in which a government subsidizes a firm outside of its territory. When such a firm’s products are exported to third countries, could such financing be disciplined under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures? Should such financing, which enhances development in the receiving countries, be disciplined at all? The authors shed light on these issues and provide a preliminary guidance on how to structure this problem under international trade law.

scholarly journals Reforming Higher Education in India: In Pursuit of Excellence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chetan Singai ◽  
T R Kumaraswamy ◽  
Ajay Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
National Education ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
World Class ◽  
Quality In Higher Education ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Political Economic

Higher education has emerged as one of the most critical factors for the Nation’s economic, political, social and cultural growth and development. Reforming the higher education sector has become an emergent norm across the globe, especially in the developing world. India is one such emerging nation, witnessing a major shift in its ideological, pragmatic and policy directions in the last few years. The higher education sector in India has witnessed unprecedented expansion. However, given the distinctive social-political-economic context and its complexity in India, expansion in higher education is often linked with ensuring equity and access. Whereas in the developed world, expansion is often associated with quality or excellence in higher education i.e. creating world-class universities. Further, excellence in higher education is arguably the most critical component for the survival, sustenance and growth of the sector. To this end, the paper examines the convergence and divergence in policies and practices related to the pursuit of excellence in higher education and its institutions in India vis-à-vis the dominant global reforms in higher education. Erstwhile policies related to quality in higher education and the current draft National Education Policy-2019, provide a reference to the local-distinctive strategies for seeking excellence at the systemic and the institutional level, with an aspiration for global reputation. For instance, National Institutional Ranking Framework, University Grants Commission’s graded autonomy, Institutional restructuring, National Accreditation and Assessment Council and Quacquarelli Symonds- India rating and so on. The paper also sets direction on how Local strategies for global aspirations could unpack a series of issues regarding the reforms in education and delineate in what ways that these emerging global reforms, strategies are effective and appropriate to the local higher education system and its institutions.

scholarly journals WTO Provision and Higher Education in Nepal

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-142
Author(s):  
Amit Koirala
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Government Purchases ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Trading Partners ◽  
Textiles And Clothing ◽  
Industrial Standards ◽  
Wto Agreements

The World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements cover a wide range of activities such as agriculture, textiles and clothing, banking, telecommunications, government purchases, industrial standards and product safety, food and sanitation regulations and intellectual property. Under the WTO agreements, countries cannot normally discriminate between their trading partners. Imported and locally produced goods should be treated equally. The same should apply to foreign and domestic services, and to trademarks, copyrights and patents. Education has been considered as one of the trades in the WTO. It has been argued that the accession of membership to WTO will be very helpful in the development of a country like Nepal so, this paper especially tries to find out the dilemmas and prospective on higher education in Nepal with respect to WTO provision. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v1i4.10965 Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-1, issue-4: 139-142  

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