NEW DELHI: Even as the parliamentary panel has suggested certain safeguards and modification in the Foreign Educational Institutions Bill, two members of the panel submitted dissent note opposing the Bill.
The report of the department-related Parliamentary standing committee on Human Resource Development on the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010, was tabled in Rajya Sabha on Monday.
Members of the standing committee, Prasanta Kumar Majumdar and PK Biju, in their separate dissent notes have opposed the Bill.
The panel, in its report, has recommended necessary modifications in the Bill by including specific provision for medical education to make it more comprehensive and safeguard the interests of students.
The committee suggested that all the recommendations of the expert committee headed by C N R Rao should be reflected in the Act. It also suggested that, as recommended by the C N R Rao committee, the Centre should put in place adequate safeguards against poaching of Indian faculty by Foreign Educational Institutions.
The committee recommended that some viable norms could be prescribed regarding the hiring of teachers by Foreign Education providers from India and bringing in some percentage of the faculty from their country.
The panel suggested that while considering the proposals of foreign educational institutions for operating in the country, only a specified number of top institutions in the world might be invited to open their centres of excellence in the country.
The committee felt that the government should be very cautious regarding the standard of education being provided by the foreign educational institutions.
“The government may devise a mechanism that the institutions which are accredited in their own country should be cross checked here also so as to ensure the maintenance of required standard of education,” it added.
