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Internationalization of Higher Education in Karnataka – Avenues for Strategic Academic

AlliancesN.Ramesh Kumar,

Advisor, Overseas Centre for Foreign Students (OCFS),Government of Karnataka, Bangalore

June 2, 2016

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USA earns approx. $ 27 Billion (annually through International Students - tuitions & living exp.)

UK : …… 8.5 billion Pounds Ireland : 900 million Euros Australia : 19.1 billion Aus. Dollars New Zealand : 2.3 billion NZ dollars Canada: 5.5 billion Canadian Dollars INDIA ………???? Are we losers ? (estimated 0.2 US $

billion)

*Students from India contribute approximately (outward mobility) US$ 8 billion annually.

Economic Impact of Mobility* source: www.iie.org/projectatlas

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Mr. N. Ramesh Kumar holds two Master’s degrees in Industrial Economics from Brussels University, Brussels, Belgium and in Business Administration from Boston University, Boston, US. He is well versed in French language. He has spent almost 3 decades overseas. He is a career International Banker with over 30 years of solid work experience gained in well known International Banks in such countries as Greece, Belgium, Egypt, Dubai, Muscat, Riyadh and India.

A widely traveled person across various continents and with a deep interest in academics and students mobility and education tourism aspects and consulting. His forte is franchise promotion. He is currently the Advisor – Overseas Centre for Foreign Students (OCFS) at the Karnataka State Higher Education Council – KSHEC (Department of Higher Education), Bangalore. The Mission of OCFS is for Internationalization of Higher Education in Karnataka and to promote Karnataka globally as an attractive Centre for Higher Education.

Writer:

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Karnataka has 52 universities, out of which 25 State Universities, 1 Central University, 14 Deemed Universities, and 12 Private Universities (approved by Government of Karnataka).

The state boasts of national-level institutions in almost every discipline such as health, management, science and technology, law, social science, education, linguistics as well as an IIM, IISc, IIIT, TIFR, National Law School, NIMHANS, ISEC, RIE Mysore, Regional Institute of English and many more.

There are over 480 degree colleges affiliated to any of the state universities. There are 207 engineering colleges, 61 medical colleges, 48 dental colleges, 280 management institutions as well as Polytechnics, Pharmacy, Yoga, Fashion Designs, Homeopathy colleges and over 60 international schools.

Higher Education Profile

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Globalization and technological change processes that have accelerated in tandem over the past fifteen years. This has created a new global economy “powered by technology, fueled by information and driven by knowledge.

Today, active level of work is being directed by the Department of Higher Education to enhancing of ICT use in State Universities so as to provide the full spectrum of support in such areas as automation of administrative aspects, streamlining of both admissions and examinations process, e-content, e-learning, HRMS, etc. All these to ensure necessary governance, transparency and a streamlined approach.

USE of ICT in Higher Education

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It is well known that today Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) have become powerful enabling tools for educational change and reform.

ICT is assisting the sphere of Higher education to provide wide coverage and access, strengthen the relevance of education to the increasingly digital workplace, and raise educational quality, among others and helping to make teaching and learning into an engaging and active process connected to real life.

Information and Communication Technologies

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We had recently organised a workshop on internationalization of higher education in Karnataka as part of our Overseas centre for Foreign Students (OCFS) under the Karnataka State Higher Education Council (KSHEC).

The theme of the workshop was to examine capacity building for Global Learning through shared commitment of the higher education sector to encourage peer to peer research and encourage innovation.

The workshop also explored opportunities for our universities in study, joint research/avenues, network services, exploring strategic academic alliances with overseas universities.

It addressed such issues as the institutional developments to maximize learning, improved course delivery methods, pedagogy application oriented curriculum designs.

Internationalization of Higher Education in Karnataka

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Top Ranked Benefits of Internationalization(Source: IAU 4th Global Survey 2014)

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Today we have 13,900 foreign students studying in Karnataka. This is split up as follows:

Universities and affiliated Colleges: 9,000 Private Institutions: 5,000 Total Number of foreign students in India is

38,500 Share of Karnataka: 36% Karnataka has the maximum share

percentage of foreign students.

Foreign Students in Karnataka June 2016

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1) Student Mobility: We would like to invite students from you country to study in our Universities. Your student can come for formal degree courses or short term certificate courses. Your Governments can constitute Scholarships for deserving students.

2) Visa and arrival: We are working towards streamlining the Visa and arrival process for foreign students. Each of our University has a Nodal Officer and an International centre in their campus. The Nodal Officer will take the responsibility to ensure that the foreign students is settled well and all paper work and documentation is in place including international student card, insurance, and hostel/housing facilities.

3) Vocational Education: We are keen to provide Vocational Education in collaboration with businesses and industry. We want to assist both Indian and foreign students through this and eventually make them ready for the job market. This aids mobility of students both ways as well.

Areas of Alliances with Overseas Universities

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Art and Design - arts and healthcare, contemporary crafts, ceramics and textiles, Asian arts,

Health – genetics, cell & molecular biology, ageing, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, microbiology,

Education - education policy and practice, Education of Children and Young People, Creative writing & poetry, literary criticism & English language. Sociology and Social Policy - Gender & Sexuality, Critical Disability Studies, Urban

Geography Aviation, Transport & the Environment. Sensing & Imaging. Electrochemistry, graphene and carbon nanotubes Computer Science - healthcare technology, computational fluid dynamics Enterprise – international business, place management, policy modeling Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Some of the possible areas of cooperation and inward investment

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Concept: The objective of a typical CoE will be to act as a channel for all Universities in

Karnataka. They will have multiple products delivered through it. CoE will focus on improving the standards of higher education in Karnataka by sharing of best practices, faculty movement, joint research opportunities. Joint meetings, receiving of faculty and delegation from Overseas, exploring new areas of strategic academic collaboration, finding new partners, investments for joint research undertaking, etc.

As a first stage, Our Universities would join hands with an Overseas University to select specific topics/areas of interest and develop necessary course curriculum (suitable to our environment).

We are also looking at areas as advancement in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (new developments), Sports Science, SME development activities.

Once a curriculum is developed, these courses could be accessible to all Universities in Karnataka.

Centre of Excellence (CoE)

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The conventional one focuses more on student mobility and to some extent faculty mobility as a strategy.

Under the modern one, business models are formulated that includes not only student and faculty mobility, but also institutional mobility and programme mobility – all with a primary view to make knowledge sharing and economic gains, enrichment of quality in teaching, research and intellectual environment in our Universities that result in better knowledge production and dissemination.

We would like to go selectively and approach by identifying a few high quality select institutions abroad and invite them to come to India, to share teaching and research with Indian students and faculty.

Also, such institutions will be provided a conductive atmosphere for these institutions to set up joint venture academic alliances, joint degree programs.

Our Universities will be provided additional required support in this regard, to facilitate, inter alia, student and faculty exchanges with the Overseas Joint partner University.

How can we cooperate by way of strategic academic alliance.

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There are many avenues of Cooperation in the Higher Education space with overseas Universities and institutions.

OCFS is ready to receive Academic delegation from Overseas Minister of Higher Education and work out specific action plans for bilateral cooperation in higher education in Karnataka.

Thank you all.

Summing Up