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Foreign univs may poach faculty: VIT chancellor
VELLORE: As the country debates the proposed entry of foreign universities into India, VIT University chancellor G Viswanathan on Saturday cautioned the government to put in place measures to curb poaching of faculty from leading institutions.
Pointing out that even the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) were facing a 30 to 40% shortage of faculty, he said the problem would be aggravated when foreign universities launch operations here. “Unless we insist that they (foreign universities) should bring teachers from their own institutions, all our IITs and NITs will be affected (by poaching). I hope the government of India will bear this in mind,” Viswanathan said addressing students on the occasion of the 10th University Day celebrations at VIT.
He also feared that Indian students could end up paying higher fees in foreign institutions. Citing the example of Lebanon and Qatar where foreign universities were allowed some years ago, he said “an American university charged an annual fee of $19,000 compared to just $2000 in a Lebanese university. If this were to be the case in India, then students would end up paying a tuition fee that was five to 10 times higher.”
At the same time, he advocated doling out incentives to attract competent and talented persons to take up teaching assignments. One way of doing this was by granting exemption to teachers from paying income tax or imposing a lesser tax as was done in Pakistan where teachers had to pay just 5% tax.
Viswanathan also favoured liberalisation of education sector on the lines of the economic liberalisation witnessed in 1991. Only after the economy was liberalised the growth rate went up from 4% to 9%. Liberalisation in education will lead to expansion of higher educational institutions.’’
Source : TOI
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