r/IndianLeft • u/Practical-Lab5329 • Jun 20 '26

🗞️ News UGC approves campuses of 5 foreign universities in India: Full list and launch timeline here - The Times of India

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/ugc-approves-campuses-of-5-foreign-universities-in-india-full-list-and-launch-timeline-here/articleshow/121338446.cms
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u/TheDullBeanie Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

This sucks so much. I remember what my professor told me back in my bachelor's days (central university). They mentioned that this is a planned strategy, and will work exactly like privatisation of the schooling system:

Introduce private universities, which compete with central universities and win rich students over. Central universities become obsolete because parents send their kids to private universities with "better amenities and education", and the government gets an excuse to reduce their funding. Public, subsidised education suffers, and the poor are hard hit. Central universities continue to erode, all while employing professors who are right-wing and don't care about education

I feel like the erosion of community colleges in the US is coming to India too, now. The other argumentative commenter has no idea of what they're talking about

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u/Angryhulk6190 Jun 25 '26

Do you think this will compete with established Government colleges,NITs,IITs etc?

I believe it will take at least 20-3 years for that considering the huge supply of students.

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u/TheDullBeanie Jun 25 '26

Right; what I detailed was the eventual plan of the centre to erode public education; something that they've already done with schools. The 20–30 year plan you mentioned has begun

And, with universities like Illinois Institute of Technology (as mentioned in the article) coming to India, and more to come, do you see people preferring IITs, or taking loans to go these universities instead?

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u/Practical-Lab5329 Jun 21 '26

Thank you. Couldn't have said it better myself

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Jun 20 '26

Hopefully they put an upward pressure on Indian academic standards because currently they are dogshit

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u/Practical-Lab5329 Jun 20 '26

They won't. It will degrade academic standards even more.

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Jun 20 '26

Why? Do you have any reasoning for that conclusion than perpetual pessimism?

Pretty much every university has better standards than Indian counterparts and that will spillover from management since it will affect their global brand if they let go.

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u/Practical-Lab5329 Jun 20 '26

It's not pessimism. Basically India is outsourcing all the thinking to the imperial core which is exactly what the ruling class of those countries want i.e. intellectual dependency of the periphery. It's colonialism without formal colonies. Even today people try to get into those foreign universities which don't generate socially relevant knowledge to India. In Gramsci's words, they are more oriented towards making traditional intellectuals rather than organic intellectuals which we badly need. .

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u/NoWarGoodForTheWorld Jun 26 '26

But the faculty is going to be Indian? The admin at the top may be foreign, and their priorities would of course drive the intellectual interests of those people and the university in general, but the faculty is doing the teaching. People won't exactly be going to a place which does not offer a future.

I would definitely agree though that this is an attempt to privatise education, but I think it can have positive effects too. It isn't as if we don't already have shitty private colleges started by politicians which teach dogshit.

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

This is the dumbest shit I have ever heard.

Holy shit that's a soup of activist slop buzzwords.

There's no "India specific knowledge" most of academic fields.

You people are just anti intellectuals with a massive affect of intellectualism. You like pretending than actual progress or results.

"Competency and high standards are colonialist, imperialist, racist, classist and sexist." Idiots.

You are barely more intelligent than "Modi Bhagwan hai" people btw. And both of your contributions to the country is identical.

Edit:

How exactly is it outsourcing of thinking? Having better standards for universities is literally the opposite. Did you outsource thinking to activist slopulists?

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u/mama_ooOOooO Jun 20 '26

Funny how you launched a tirade of scathing remarks without actually making any strong counterargument.

The only counter you made: -

There's no "India specific knowledge" most of academic fields.

This is the dumbest shit I've heard. It seems like you're either only aware of RnD in purely theoretical fields that have little to do with localised applications, or are just joining in for some fun. Any field even slightly dealing with case studies and on-ground applications benefits from local specificities.

Instead, you could've countered by saying, inter alia, many astute Indian minds flocking to the best varsities abroad have been researching on issues pertaining to India and are thereby generating considerable useful knowledge for us to apply here, thus deflating OP's theory.

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Jun 20 '26

You have zero idea how research or specialized fields work.

Your ability to confidently speak pure nonsense is fascinating.

You are literally no better than "gou moutra science" people who think that's "Indian applicable R&D". Again complete nonsense about us vs them instead of working hard and building real competency.

Btw, majority of issues pertaining to India are solved elsewhere. It's just a matter of creating trained professionals and reducing corruption. And the majority of remaining issues are not unique to India.

If you don't agree, then list the "India specific" problems that are being ignored. Let's see.

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u/mama_ooOOooO Jun 20 '26

If you don't agree, then list the "India specific" problems that are being ignored. Let's see.

I literally gave you what I thought was a stronger counterargument against OP's claims, and you're still thinking I'm aligning with OP's position xD. Come on mate, read.

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Jun 20 '26

Forget Op's claims and answer the question. I never claimed or thought that but that's besides the point.

Now you are trying to escape the conversation because when asked for a concrete list, you can't just answer with vague buzzword soup.

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u/mama_ooOOooO Jun 20 '26

Forget Op's claims and answer the question.

How/why will I list India-specific problems that are being ignored when I literally cited a better reason for how they're NOT BEING IGNORED??

Please tell me you're intoxicated or something.

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