Foreign varsities will want UGC’s nod to arrange campuses in India
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NEW DELHI: Foreign universities will want the University Grants Commission’s nod to arrange campuses in India and the preliminary approval might be for 10 years, the panel’s chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar stated on Thursday.
He additionally burdened that overseas varsities with campuses within the nation can solely provide full-time programmes in bodily mode and never on-line or distance studying.
These universities may have the liberty to plot their very own admission course of and payment construction, Kumar stated because the UGC on Thursday introduced the draft rules for ‘Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India’.
He added that overseas varsities will even have to make sure the standard of training imparted at their Indian campuses is on par with their essential campus.
On issues associated to funds and funding, he stated that the cross-border motion of funds might be in response to the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
The ultimate norms be notified by the month’s finish after bearing in mind suggestions from stakeholders, Kumar stated and added that the approval granted to overseas varsities might be renewed within the ninth yr topic to assembly of sure circumstances.
NEW DELHI: Foreign universities will want the University Grants Commission’s nod to arrange campuses in India and the preliminary approval might be for 10 years, the panel’s chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar stated on Thursday.
He additionally burdened that overseas varsities with campuses within the nation can solely provide full-time programmes in bodily mode and never on-line or distance studying.
These universities may have the liberty to plot their very own admission course of and payment construction, Kumar stated because the UGC on Thursday introduced the draft rules for ‘Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India’.
He added that overseas varsities will even have to make sure the standard of training imparted at their Indian campuses is on par with their essential campus.
On issues associated to funds and funding, he stated that the cross-border motion of funds might be in response to the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
The ultimate norms be notified by the month’s finish after bearing in mind suggestions from stakeholders, Kumar stated and added that the approval granted to overseas varsities might be renewed within the ninth yr topic to assembly of sure circumstances.
