New Delhi, Jan. 9: The human resource development minister, Mr Kapil Sibal, on Saturday promised that all reforms in the education sector, including regulations for allowing entry of foreign education providers and setting up of an overarching body, will be in place this year.
Speaking at a programme on Boston University Indian 2010 Global Leadership Summit, he said the reforms are long overdue and 2010 will the year of “deliverance”. “By 2010, all regulations relating to reforms in education will be in place. This is a promise,” he said.
The government has initiated six major legislations for bringing reforms in education.
These are legislations for setting up of a overarching body replacing the existing regulators like the UGC and the AICTE, allowing entry and operation of foreign education providers in India, setting up of a national accreditation agency, setting up of educational tribunals, having a law to check malpractice in educational institutions and a law to set up a national educational finance corporation.
To a question, Mr Sibal said the foreign universities, which want to set up campuses in India, will be exempted from implementing reservation in admissions.
“There is no reservation law for private educational institutions. The same provision will be apply to the foreign education providers which are not government institutes,” Mr Sibal said.
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