Posts Tagged ‘ Higher Education Summit ’

Pitroda for early passage of higher education Bills

It seems like none of Prime Minister’s advisers are happy with state of education in the country. Sam Pitroda, Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations adviser has expressed his unhappiness with the delay in implementation of higher education reforms at the FICCI Higher Education Summit.  A few days back economic adviser Raghuram Rajan had slammed...

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Montek for foreign faculty in Indian Universities

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, planning commission has supported changing laws to allow universities to hire foreign faculty. Addressing the FICCI Higher Education Summit he said, “Indian universities must have an international flavour, international students, international staff. This would not happen unless the government removes the restriction on employment of international faculty. “ Under the current...

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