New Delhi, July 13: Government will soon bring a law to regulate foreign education providers in the country and would not allow students to be “exploited” by them, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal told the Lok Sabha on Monday.
A law is being contemplated to put in place a mechanism to facilitate entry of reputed foreign universities accredited in their country of origin for further improving the quality of higher education and research in the country, while preventing entry of foreign institutions/universities of dubious quality, he said.
“We will not allow our children to be exploited by foreign education providers,” Sibal said replying to supplementaries during Question Hour.
He said another legislative proposal is also under consideration for prohibiting and punishing those inducing students to take admission in institutions not recognised by the appropriate statutory authorities.
Market demand would decide the courses offered by foreign universities and the government cannot force them to start courses in a particular discipline, Sibal said in reply to a question from BJP member Maneka Gandhi who congratulated the minister for announcing “dynamic steps” for education reforms.
The All India Council for Technical Education has framed regulations limited to collaborations in technical education and six such collaborations have been registered by AICTE under the said regulations, Sibal said.
–Agencies