Monday, October 08, 2012

Arjun’s back with a vengeance

For most of his term, he had his hands tied left, right and centre; Arjun’s back with a vengeance

Unfortunately, somewhere along the line, transformation got replaced by ‘regulation’, a factor that now seems to be stifling higher education to a point of death. Analysts comment that it is only when this quasi license permit raj in education is dismantled by the UGC and AICTE, will the education sector take off and become world class. And both the UGC and AICTE have a credible supporter for reforms; Arjun Singh himself. “The new law will help us regulate foreign education providers while keeping out fly-by-night operators. We hope to introduce the bill in the coming session of Parliament,” Arjun confidently shared this viewpoint with the media once his meeting with the state education ministers got over. One doesn’t need ESP to understand that this time, Arjun is hitting Left, Right and Centre to ensure the Bill gets passed! And he just might succeed!

Just as the entry of foreign players in various sectors has vastly improved the quality of Indian companies, the entry of foreign players in education will lead to a dramatic improvements in the quality of education in the country. Way back in the 1980s, a man whom Arjun Singh admires a lot, Rajiv Gandhi, had strategically used a man called Sam Pitroda to kick-start the telecom revolution in India. The same man now heads the Knowledge Commission, a body mandated to transform the education sector in India. All Arjun Singh needs to do is emulate Rajiv Gandhi and back Sam Pitroda to the hilt.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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