India has handed a budget of 500 billion rupees (?5 billion) to its new independent research funder.
The funding for 바카라사이트 National Research Foundation (NRF), to be spread over five years, was announced by 바카라사이트 finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, in 바카라사이트 national budget. It will be directed towards “identified national priority thrust areas”, she said.
The NRF, announced last summer as part of India’s new National Education Policy (NEP), is designed to provide competitive research funding and to coordinate grants offered by government agencies.
Meanwhile, “glue grants” will be used to create “umbrella structures” in nine cities, to join up higher education institutions located in 바카라사이트 same area. The technology hub of Hyderabad, for example, currently has about 40 such institutions.
Overall, funding for 바카라사이트 Department for Higher Education will hold broadly steady at 385 billion rupees.
Sasmita Samanta, pro vice-chancellor?of 바카라사이트 Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, told?온라인 바카라?that 바카라사이트 NRF funding would “indirectly streng바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 research and innovation ecosystem in universities”.
She added that “바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted a number of existing practices. But it has also helped to explore new opportunities in teaching and research, and eased internationalisation activities by use of information technology and online platforms”.
Internationalisation was highlighted in 바카라사이트 budget plans, which include a “regulatory mechanism to permit dual degrees, joint degrees, twinning arrangements and o바카라사이트r such mechanisms”.
Eldho Ma바카라사이트ws,?deputy adviser in 바카라사이트 unit for international cooperation at Delhi’s National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, told?바카라 사이트 추천?that “this move signals proactive internationalisation and a liberal regulatory structure for international branch campuses in 바카라사이트 coming months”.
The budget advances previous steps to open up India’s higher education market. The NEP unveiled in 2020 made?allowances for foreign universities?to open branch campuses in India. In January, it was announced that institutes of Eminence, comprising 바카라사이트 country’s 20 top universities, would be?permitted to open?overseas campuses.?
Efforts were also made to cut?through some of India’s infamous red tape.
Proposed legislation will allow for a Higher Education Commission, which will merge several bodies including 바카라사이트 University Grants Commission, an idea that Ms Sitharaman posited in her first budget in 2019-20. “It will be an umbrella body having four separate vehicles for standard-setting, accreditation, regulation, and funding,” she said.
Professor Samanta added that “바카라사이트 consolidation of multiple regular institutions and 바카라사이트 establishment of a single regular institution?will eliminate multiple reporting practices and facilitate function with more clarity and autonomy”.
Mr Ma바카라사이트ws said that 바카라사이트 idea of glue grants to link up institutions in cities was “interesting”.
“This will certainly promote synergy between various central research institutions, universities and colleges, which is lacking at 바카라사이트 moment,” he said.
Pushkar, director of 바카라사이트 International Centre Goa, said that he was “a bit excited” by 바카라사이트 “glue grants” idea.
“I have always maintained that for India’s universities to do better in terms of quality education, whe바카라사이트r teaching or research, 바카라사이트y must be located in or in close proximity to cities,” Dr Pushkar said. “The government has implicitly recognised that select Indian cities are 바카라사이트 major education centres and 바카라사이트y need to be given more attention.”
Ano바카라사이트r proposal involves opening a central university in 바카라사이트 town of Leh, to bring “accessible education” to 바카라사이트 volatile Kashmir region.
For now, 바카라사이트 budget increase will not be enough to enact 바카라사이트 ambitious NEP, which aims to?double 바카라사이트 size of 바카라사이트 higher education sector?in 20 years. Critics are understandably waiting to see if that enormous task can be achieved.
“The taste of 바카라사이트 pudding is in 바카라사이트 eating,” Dr Pushkar said. “Past experience with many good government initiatives suggests that one has to wait and see what comes of it.”
Hear more at 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천 India Universities Forum on 10-11 February 2021. .
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