Thu, Mar 18 03:04 PM For foreign universities, which haven`t yet recovered fully from the aftershocks of the worldwide recession, India presents, to quote a word re-introduced into the English vocabulary by Tim Burton`s Alice in Wonderland , a `frabjous` opportunity. More than 100,000 students leave Indian shores annually to study at universities abroad. Their presence has made foreign universities wake up to the incontrovertible fact that there`s another `creamy layer` below these students abroad whose families are prepared to pay upwards of Rs 2.5 lakh a year for quality education. Profs debate Foreign Univ Bill What foreign universities Bill can`t do International students are the economic mainstay of foreign universities, but these institutions are not in a position to meet the demand for the education they provide on their own campuses back home. This untapped market makes the business of overseas campuses that much more lucrative. For over a decade, foreign universities have been lobbying hard for the passage of the Foreign Education Providers Bill, which has been a pet project of HRD minister Kapil Sibal. The most recent of these exploratory visits was that of Robert A. Brown, president of Boston University, who was in the Capital in January to plan collaborations with leading universities here. He said there was an insatiable appetite for quality education in India and collaborations would mutually benefit both countries. US`s Georgia Institute of Technology announced its plan to set up campuses in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam as soon as the Bill gets Parliament nod. Central Michigan University, meanwhile, has taken another route to plant its flag in India. It has been offering a collaborative MBA programme with the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, for the past five years. Experts associated with these universities explain the economic logic of their plans for India: the proliferation of private institutions in the country-especially in engineering, medicine, management and law - that charged fees upwards of Rs 2.5 lakh a year was evidence of the vast market waiting to be tapped. These institutions attract the second layer of the country`s higher education market. These are students whose families can`t afford foreign education (upwards of Rs 15 lakh a year), but want to be in the top four favourite streams. India, according the now-defunct National Knowledge Commission, needs 1,500 universities, compared with about 350 now, to raise the enrollment numbers from 7 per cent of the population aged 18-25 to developed country averages. But even before the Bill got the cabinet`s nod, Indian universities had initiated the process of collaborating with their international peers to offer degrees or diplomas. A National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NEPA) report in 2008 pegged the number of these institutions at more than 130. For Bangalore University vice- chancellor A. N. Prabhu Deva, collaboration is the way forward. "It will help a higher education institution rise to the standards of its foreign partner," he says. But for this collaboration to become meaningful, says R. Govinda, NEPA V-C, teaching must go hand in hand with research. "Only then will quality education and foreign collaborations be meaningful," he says. Either way, for foreign universities, this is a winwin situation. Narayanan Ramaswamy, executive director of the management consultancy KPMG, points to the "massive demand supply gap" driving the international higher education market. Reproduced From Mail Today. Copyright 2010. MTNPL. All rights reserved ...

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Dear All, My Stock Idea message on Century Ply got vanished/deleted from the message board.....its Disgusting....Why so happened?????? Today morning I posted a stock idea call on Century ply and the message was@ STOCK IDEA@ CENTURY PLY LOOKS GOOD ONLY ABOVE 55 FOR A TARGET OF UPTO 59-61. AVOID ANY LONG BELOW 55. After an hour or so the Target got HIT where it hits a high of 59.40 from the odd 55 levels. How can they remove my message from the message board?? Its SHAMEFUL on the part of message board management!!! Its an UGLY act afterall!!! Kind Regards, Manish Bothra, Money_Mystery, Kolkata. ...

I`ve never been afraid to admit when I`ve made a mistake. It nearly drives me nuts sometimes, making mistakes. I keep telling myself I should be perfect, but that isn`t what we`re here for. Perfection isn`t an option for us; perfection is death, Mico, we`are here to learn and change, and that means making mistakes. William Pierce...

why you guys are so much behind the bonus... after declaring bonus the stock has risen uptil 97... keep buying around 72-73 and selling around 83-85...

Friends !!! Sterlite Technologies up over 5 % from days low !!! Happy investing !!!...

dear dbd,andhra bank is one of the preffered banks for investment by almost all hsbc mutual funds...

dear bala,and today it has reached 44,regards...

dear manjyot,i have bought 8000 today at 9 rs to average at 12.will keep on investing daily profits fron other stocks and average at maybe 9.5 and than try sell,regards...

can anyone tell about bonus?it has been long since declaration was made but no further development...

dear manjyot, this stock is like a mushroom ,smells nice but is actually only a poisonous one....

THERE was a rumor that income tax deptt has raided punj lloyds in delhi. can anybody confirm?...

dear sidnik, one correction.this is not a fixed deposit,with 10% inflation,this is a leak which shall empty the tank,regards...

smart money is what earns every minute,moves from stagnation and into action at right time.the right time for nhpc will be when the scrit goes to post 40,regards...

DEAR KING, we do not want geeta gyan but gupt gyan about gujrat nre from you.what is your next prediction?...

please do not put a limit to your imaginations,4200 will be possible by 2110 ,buy and hold...

DEAR KING,i feel this is the best defensive stock today.market may go to 15000 ,you will still not loose more than 10/15 paise and if goes to 20000 ,you make cool 15/20%.when some people are fearing correction,this stock makes sense,regards...

dear hariom,why are you starting a new thread on a board not related to your message.this is promotional and not amature advise,please desist from such messages on unrelated boards,regards...