Foreign Universities

Fast-paced technological inventions often outgrow the media laboratories that house them, however big they may be, within no time.

According to a new report on education sector nearly 20 percent, i.e. one-fifth of the private colleges in Australia are actually ‘visa factories’. Former MP Bruce Baird who had submitted the report has revealed that it is the fact that 20 percent private colleges are 'permanent residency factories' in Australia and these institutes have affected the education industry very badly. 

It seems the time is ripe for students in the country to make good use of the opportunity the cordial Canadian soil presents.

Considering the increased career opportunities provided by the optional practical training (OPT) facility, it has been decided that Indian students who have taken up the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in the United States could avail themselves of an extended OPT period of 29 months.

News of foreign universities setting foot on Indian soil through academic tie-ups is now common news. But here is something akin to turning the tides. The Pune-based Bharati Vidyapeeth University’s Amplify Mindware Department of Infotech and Management has taken the initiative of setting up an academic campus at Qingdao in the Chinese province of Shandong. The academy will offer full-time degree courses in IT and management, beginning June 2010.

The HRD ministry (MHRD) has proposed two kinds of reservation policy in its concept note on the setting of 14 Innovation Universities where some of these varsities will be directly funded by the government and some will be funded in public-private participation (PPP) mode.

With India’s aviation sector all set to fly higher, the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has decided to set up a base here to provide the required academic inputs to those who wish to make a career or further develop their skills in this sector.

If plans work out accordingly, then Maharashtra will have the alliance of Japanese universities in days to come. Japan is planning to strengthen co-operation between its universities and those in Maharashtra. The latest move is the result of the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. 

Each generation has had its own mode of communication, with each novel version outrivaling its immediate predecessor both in pace and perfection. Right now, social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are being widely embraced as the latest trend in communication technology.

India is striving hard to let many Ivy League institutions set up their shops in the country without facing any hurdles. A far more liberalized version of the Foreign Universities Bill is expected to work as a catalyst for Ivy League institutions into India.