[Assam] Globalization or Privatization?

Sun Feb 4 23:00:03 EST 2007

This is an interesting topic.

Whenever a sector is leberalised, a custodian or regulator will be needed to
monitor the  misuse of liberty! Like they have in Telecom, Insurance or
Electricity.

I don't know whether it's a good idea.

-mkd

On 2/5/07, Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Umesh,
> My goodness! You drew some rapid conclusion and started on western
> universities taking over Indian universities.
> Is that what the Assam College teachers were talking about? Or were they
> worried about private sector taking over the colleges from the government
> (public sector)? What is MNC in education?
> Dilipda
>
> *umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
> Interesting. Ofcourse foreign univs and people and their views are always
> viewed with suspciion. Thats why Indian govt (or perhaps even US one) does
> not allow foreign owned media to operate in the country.
>
> Univs shape public minds and opinions. So teaching that Hindu religion is
> full of myth (as per Western univs) and that freedom of speech includes
> allowing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad --may not go down well in many
> developing nations. Thus, cultural adaptation of Western univ courses is a
> must. Just like McDonalds have a completely vegan/vegetarian joint at some
> Indian cities -- Western Univs have to become Glocal (Global -but Local).
>
> Also, NO western univ can really teach in India what they teach in their
> own country --when it comes to advanced or cutting edge research in sciences
> etc ---since it is top secret info. I cannot imagine Stanford or MIT doing
> the defense related research in India -which they do in US -- the US
> security organizations would not allow that. So Indians get a watered down
> version of the latest research.  Although even this may be good - to get
> lower level research related jobs into India -- like si being done by MNCs
> in India now.
>
> On the other hand, 100% foreign ownership of univs (we already have a
> number of B-grade ones in India) might see local private efforts in India go
> downhill. Though competetion is generally good . If Indian univs beat the
> foreign ones on Indian turf they can get an  image useful in setting up
> operations in the West!!  Govt univs ofcourse have only a "Few Good
> Men/Women"
>
> Umesh
>
> *Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
> The following is from the Assam Tribune. The conference was attended by
> college teachers.
> Was the word 'globalisation' wrongly used in place of 'privatization'?
> Where is the fear - private sector owning and running the institutions of
> higher learning, or multinational corporations like GE, IBM, Sony, Tata or
> Mittal running the institutions?
> If someone can explain in the net, I'd appreciate.
> The private sector has been investing in education in other Indian states
> for a while. How are those colleges faring - in quality of education and
> affordability?
> Dilip Deka
>
> *STATE*
> ------------------------------
> *'Globalisation of education harmful to poor students'
> *From Our Correspondent
>  DHUBRI, Feb 2 – The 3rd zonal conference of ACTA's west zone consisting
> of ACTA's units of Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon and Chirang districts, was
> held on January 22 on the BN College premises of Dhubri. The conference was
> attended, besides delegates from the colleges of the four districts, by
> Jyoti Nath Gogoi, president, ACTA, Dr Apurba Kr Das, GS, ACTA and Ramesh Ch
> Barman, central observer.
>
> The delegate meeting was held under the presidentship of Nagendra Nath
> Roy, president of the zonal committee. The meeting observed two minute
> silence at the beginning in the memory of educationists, litterateur,
> artists, political leaders and victims of extremists' mayhem during the last
> one year. Addressing the session, Dr A K Das gave a detail account of the
> ACTA activities in connection with implementation of pension scheme for
> college employees, payment of arrrears, placement in senior and selection
> grade of teachers, filling up of vacant posts in the colleges, etc. The
> secretarial report was distributed by Sheikh Hedayetullah, secretary of the
> zonal committee. The conference adopted seven resolutions.
>
> Earlier, a seminar on Impact of globalisation on higher education with
> special reference to North East region was held which was formally
> inaugurated by G K Srivastava, retired HoD English deptt, BN college. It was
> conducted by TN Chakravarty, former vice-president of ACTA and the main
> speaker Abdul Mannan, lecturer, Statistics Deptt, GU. In his deliberation
> Mannan drew a gloomy picture of higher education in India in the future if
> globalisation is allowed to grasp the field of education. According to him
> MNCs treat education as a consumer commodity. If they succeed it will give
> them a market of 4700000 crore rupee-business Higher education will be
> costly and our poor students will be unable to afford it. By signing the WTO
> by the Government of India in 1994, it has already stepped into the
> death-trap of the GATS (General Agreement in trade Services).
>
> Government has started avoiding its social responsibility in education by
> not filling vacant posts and by imposing ever new conditions in appointment
> of teachers. In NE region, which is already educationally backward,
> globalisation of education will bring doom to oue aspiring students, Mannan
> said.
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