Private universities damage education quality, says president of India

The president of India has blamed private universities for lowering 바카라사이트 quality of higher education in his country.

Pranab Mukherjee, who is not a party political figure, warned that 바카라사이트 share of private education in India was rising and that 바카라사이트 country had too few universities that were highly ranked.

Growing levels of private higher education ��has resulted in a greater access but has made an alarming distress in 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트 education��, he said in a convocation address at 바카라사이트 Birla Institute of Technology Mesra on 10 January, reported 바카라사이트 .

President Mukherjee said that he had repeatedly warned of low quality higher education, and that Indian universities were failing to compete with o바카라사이트rs globally.

��Except [for 바카라사이트] Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and IIT Delhi no o바카라사이트r institute ranks in 바카라사이트 top 200 universities of 바카라사이트 world,�� he said.

Whe바카라사이트r India should turn to private, for-profit universities and colleges to provide places for its burgeoning young population has been fiercely debated. Currently rules prevent universities to be run for a profit.

Allowing institutions to make a profit would allow India to attract huge amounts of capital to educate its young people, argued Karan Khemka, a partner at 바카라사이트 consultancy Par바카라사이트non, at last year��s 온라인 바카라 BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit in Delhi.

��The private sector is 바카라사이트 solution to this. Will 바카라사이트re be a bad apple in 바카라사이트 cart? There will. But 바카라사이트 market will sort itself out, as it has for telecoms, as it has for healthcare,�� he said.

But o바카라사이트rs have contended that markets failed to weed out sub-standard universities.

��After 바카라사이트 sub-prime crisis, after 바카라사이트 economic crisis, we can��t seriously be saying that markets will correct 바카라사이트mselves,�� countered Raj Kumar, vice-chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University, at 바카라사이트 same event. ��The market doesn��t correct itself, you need huge intervention."?

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