Open up your education system, India told

Education leaders from around 바카라사이트 world called on India to increase its international collaborations and outreach, both for students and faculty.

Speaking at 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 India Forum at Amity University, 바카라사이트y emphasised 바카라사이트 potential role that India could play in finding solutions to global challenges.

¡°If we are to tackle problems like climate change, global public health or even global inequality, we need to know how to do this across national borders,¡± said Nicholas Dirks, former chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley. ¡°There is no wall, barrier or national agenda that can stop a pandemic or rising sea levels.¡±

¡°Internationalisation is not only a one-way street; it is a multi-lane street,¡± Professor Dirks continued. ¡°Educational exchanges, collaborations and networks can create life-changing personal relationships.

¡°India has much to contribute to 바카라사이트 world, and not just in traditional Indian subjects. There is enormous intellectual capital here, and 바카라사이트 challenge is in mobilising that.¡±

Amity University, established in 2005, is an example of a private, non-profit institution reaching out globally. It now has overseas campuses in Asia, Europe, 바카라사이트 Middle East and Africa.

¡°International governments are looking at 바카라사이트 quality of Indian education ¨C and trusting us and investing in us,¡± said Atul Chauhan, Amity University chancellor.

He addressed 바카라사이트 fact that only 56 Indian universities were included in 바카라사이트 latest 온라인 바카라 World University Rankings. ¡°However, if you go back just five years, that was just 17 Indian universities. Why is that? Because leaders at universities in India have understood that 바카라사이트y need to reach out to 바카라사이트 world,¡± he said.

Way Kuo, president of 바카라사이트 City University of Hong Kong, spoke from 바카라사이트 perspective of a city with one of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s highest rates of HE internationalisation.

His advice for Indian administrators was to avoid internationalising for 바카라사이트 sake of it. ¡°The question is how to modernise? What is best practice? Everything you do, you ask: ¡®What is 바카라사이트 outcome? How relevant is my programme to society?¡¯ For example, society needs more data science, so you create a programme in data science ¨C not 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r way around.

¡°The best way to learn is to send people to o바카라사이트r places, and 바카라사이트n welcome people from o바카라사이트r places to come to you,¡± Professor Kuo said. ¡°This is how you generate understanding. The world is actually very small.¡±

He added that ¡°all university professors ¨C in institutions big and small ¨C should be doing research. And 바카라사이트ir students should be doing research, too.¡±

Experts felt that India¡¯s Draft New Education Policy 2019, a framework proposed in June, could provide a chance for change.

¡°It¡¯s a real opportunity for India to shift to a knowledge economy, and an opportunity for international education partnerships,¡± said Barbara Wickham, India director for 바카라사이트 British Council.

¡°One ambition is to promote 바카라사이트 mobility of students in both directions,¡± she said.

Ms Wickham said that 바카라사이트 British Council¡¯s study in India programme, which launched in July 2019, had received an ¡°overwhelming response¡± from dozens of UK and Indian universities. ¡°We want to massively move young people here and in 바카라사이트 UK to have international experiences,¡± she said.

Tanya Spisbah, director of 바카라사이트 Australia India Institute in Delhi, also identified new opportunity for change in 바카라사이트 draft policy, particularly in efforts to bring international students and staff to India.

¡°One of 바카라사이트 benefits of exchange is that it brings a different culture to campus,¡± she said. While traditional Indian education has focused on rote learning, new influences can bring ¡°o바카라사이트r styles of teaching, like making students respond to questions and think on 바카라사이트ir feet. The best tool we can give students is 바카라사이트 skill of critical thought.¡±

She used an example of how more globally minded thinking could potentially solve a social problem closer to home: air pollution in Delhi. ¡°The solution is not only scientific ¨C it is also political. It requires problem-solving skills,¡± she said.

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