Quota on cards for foreign students
After agreeing to follow govt's quota policy, private varsities have asked for a quota for foreign students.
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: Unaided deemed-to-be-universities would like a special quota for foreign students to offset any revenue losses that the institution would accrue under the new reservation regime. The proposed reservation regime would require unaided deemed-to-be-universities to reserve seats for scheduled castes (15%), scheduled tribes (7.5%) and other backward classes (27%).
The ‘market’ fees paid by foreign students, including NRIs, would help subsidise lower fees that the institute would charge from economically and socially-backward students.
Vice chancellors of unaided deemed-to-be-universities made this suggestion to the human resource development minister Arjun Singh at a consultation on the proposed legislation to bring unaided deemed universities under the ambit of the new reservation regime.
The meeting was attended by eight of the 64 unaided deemed universities. VCs from Symbiosis, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, the oldest unaided deemed to be university, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth and LNM Institute of Information Technology attended the meet.
The vice chancellors also suggested that fee structuring and a structured admission process should be put in place to ensure that students do not lose out.
The HRD minister will be discussing the suggestions with the core group of ministers which include external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee and finance minister P Chidambaram.
Earlier in May, at a conference of deemed universities, the vice chancellors had endorsed the 93rd constitutional amendment, which provided for reservations in all education institutions including private unaided institutes, barring minority education institutions.
Institutions like Symbiosis, Birla Institute of Technology (BITS), Manipal Academy of Higher Education had earlier made a demand to the government to keep aside a defined percentage of seats for NRI students, the logic being that funds generated from NRI students would be utilised to subsidise the education of reserved category students.
The ‘market’ fees paid by foreign students, including NRIs, would help subsidise lower fees that the institute would charge from economically and socially-backward students.
Vice chancellors of unaided deemed-to-be-universities made this suggestion to the human resource development minister Arjun Singh at a consultation on the proposed legislation to bring unaided deemed universities under the ambit of the new reservation regime.
The meeting was attended by eight of the 64 unaided deemed universities. VCs from Symbiosis, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, the oldest unaided deemed to be university, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth and LNM Institute of Information Technology attended the meet.
The vice chancellors also suggested that fee structuring and a structured admission process should be put in place to ensure that students do not lose out.
The HRD minister will be discussing the suggestions with the core group of ministers which include external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee and finance minister P Chidambaram.
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Earlier in May, at a conference of deemed universities, the vice chancellors had endorsed the 93rd constitutional amendment, which provided for reservations in all education institutions including private unaided institutes, barring minority education institutions.
Institutions like Symbiosis, Birla Institute of Technology (BITS), Manipal Academy of Higher Education had earlier made a demand to the government to keep aside a defined percentage of seats for NRI students, the logic being that funds generated from NRI students would be utilised to subsidise the education of reserved category students.
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