Internationalization of Higher Education in Karnataka, INDIA

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Internationalization of Higher Education in
Karnataka Avenues for Strategic Academic
Alliances

• N.Ramesh Kumar ,
• Advisor, OCFS,
• Karnataka State Higher Education Council (KSHEC),
  
• Bengaluru,
• October 5, 2016

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OCFS

• OCFS was established during last September 2015
  with an agenda to internationalization of Higher
  Education in Karnataka. The attached power point
  presentation will provide a general view of the
  current activity. All the Universities in
  Karnataka need to work towards internationalizatio
  n as there are many benefits to the state. The
  opportunities include enhanced capacity, greater
  access, joint curricula, greater diversity of
  courses, exposure to a variety of teaching and
  learning methods, growing comparability of
  qualifications, student mobility, exposure to
  established systems of education administration
  and management, less brain drain of gifted
  students, fusion of cultures, exchange of
  research ideas and enhanced research capacity,
  multinational and cross-disciplinary teams and
  the generation of new academic environments. The
  challenges and risks concern quality of
  provision, high fees leading to elitist provision
  and inequality of access leading to a two-tier
  system which is inconsistent with the equity and
  access drivers of the states education policy.

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OCFS contd.

• One of the suggestion of OCFS is for Creating
  education hubs or Centres of Excellences (CoEs)
  strategically in Bengaluru and allowing reputable
  overseas institutions/universities to establish a
  presence in India, through joint initiatives
  (with any local university) in curriculum design
  and delivery, branch campuses, train the trainer
  initiatives and joint research and scholarly
  activities could help build capacity, reduce the
  imbalance in student mobility and attract
  significant export earnings. The number of
  overseas students, which is roughly 1 of the
  total number of students in higher education in
  Karnataka, is miniscule when compared to 21.4
  enrolled in Australia and 19.5 in the United
  Kingdom (2015 data). China, a relatively new
  entrant in attracting international students, has
  approximately 330,000 international students with
  a target of 500,000 by 2020. Singapore with
  90,000 international students and Malaysia with a
  target of 200,000 by 2020 have also become strong
  international education destinations. Our
  objective for Universities is to see how we can
  build capacity, increase access, encourage
  research capability, enhance quality and
  encourage diversity.
• All universities in the state must define its
  higher education objectives to be both globally
  and locally relevant in order to benefit from
  increased global student mobility and growing
  internationalization and globalisation. Karnataka
  has all the potential and a clear higher
  education franchise promotion would bring in
  benefits in higher education.

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Karnataka USP

• Karnataka is a blessed state as its strength lies
  in its qualified and skilled manpower supported
  well will 52 Universities in the State.
• Going forward, Karnataka will become a hub of
  supply of qualified and skilled manpower both
  within India and globally.
• To this end, we are providing our institutions
  with the best teaching methods coupled with an
  extensive use of ICT.

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Karnataka Main statistics

• Total population 64 million
• Percentage of people less that 35 years 60
• Approx number of school going children9 million
  (upto 10th standard).
• Our of the above, approx number of students
  studying upto 12th standard 3.0 million
• Approx number of students undertaking
  college/university education 2.1 million.
• Karnataka Gross Enrolment Ratio (Higher
  Education) approx 26.2 (all India 23.3).

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Karnataka and the youth

• Today in Karnataka we are ensuring that our
  University graduates (including foreign students)
  have all the necessary competencies, transversal
  skills to comfortably adapt to any international
  markets and the global environment.
• Providing quality Higher Education is the main
  agenda and cornerstone of the State of Karnataka
  for our youths to become global citizens.

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Economic Impact of Overseas Mobility source
www.iie.org/projectatlas

• USA earns approx. 27 billion
  (annually
  through International Students, academic research
  collaboration - tuitions, living,
  transportation, etc).
• UK 8.5 billion Pounds
• Ireland 900 million Euros
• Germany 900 million Euros
• Australia 19.1 billion Aus. Dollars
• New Zealand 2.3 billion NZ dollars
• Canada 5.5 billion Canadian Dollars
• INDIA (estimated 0.2 US billion)
• Students from India contribute approximately
  (outward mobility) US 8 billion annually.

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Higher Education Profile

• 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 2292 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 305 Polytechnics and also Pharmacy, Yoga,
  Fashion Designs, Homeopathy colleges and over 60
  international schools.

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USE of ICT in Higher Education

• Globalization and technological change processes
  that have accelerated in tandem over the past
  fifteen years.
• 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 for
  providing Higher Education in Karnataka.

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Internationalization of Higher Education in
Karnataka National Workshop

• We had recently (3 months ago) 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, student mobility
  and encourage innovation. Known resource
  persons/Experts were invited from Pune,
  Chandigarh, New Delhi and Bengaluru to conduct
  the 4 working sessions on the advantages of
  internationalization.
• The workshop also explored opportunities for our
  universities in study, joint research/avenues,
  network services, mobility issues, networking and
  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, sharing of best
  practices across the globe. The audiences,
  including Consul Generals of various countries
  based in Bengaluru (265 nos) have been
  sensitized to this new concept of
  Internationalization and its latent benefits.

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Top Ranked Benefits of Internationalization(Sourc
e IAU 4th Global Survey 2014)
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Foreign Students in Karnataka June 2016 (source
AISHA/MHRD)

• 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 Karnataka36. (max share in India)
• Since the start of OCFS, the absolute number of
  foreign students increase in the state is 1900.
• Majority of the foreign students (70) are
  admitted into private and deemed universities and
  private institutions in such courses as
  Engineering, Medicine and Management studies.

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Forex earning in Karnataka from foreign
students/research work (inward remittance)

• Total FOREX Earning by India data 2015 (12
  months period)
• From all the foreign students (including tuition
  fee, visa charges, living expenses, etc) USS
  200 million.
• Percentage of Foreign students studying in
  Karnataka36
• Forex earning by Karnataka US 72 million p.a.
• Conversion eqvt Rs. 4824 million or Rs.482
  crores.
• Karnataka students studying abroad
• Outward remittance US 1 billion or Rs. 6800
  crores. p.a.
• NB Karnataka is in the 7th position after (1)
  Andhra, (2)Telangana,
• (3 4) Gujarat and Rajasthan, (5) All North
  India (including New Delhi) and (6)Tamil Nadu and
  (8) all other remaining states.
• India annually spends forex of US 8 billion for
  education abroad of our students.

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Agenda to receive foreign students and foreign
visiting faculty.

• 1)   Student Mobility We would like to invite
  students from various foreign countries to study
  in our various Universities. Foreign students and
  Indians (with foreign passports) can come for
  formal degree courses or short term certificate
  courses. Foreign Governments can constitute
  Scholarships for deserving students on similar
  lines as ICCR (MEA New Delhi).
• Reference OCFS brochure and website
  www.ocfskarnataka.in
• 2) Visa and arrival  We are working towards
  streamlining the Visa and arrival process for
  foreign students. Each of our University has a
  designated Nodal Officer and an International
  Centre in their campus. The Nodal Officer is
  responsible to ensure that foreign students are
  settled well in their respective campuses and all
  paper work and documentation is in place
  including international student card, fee
  payment, FRRO registration, 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.

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Some of the possible areas of cooperation and
inward investment New collaborations/Courses.

• Art and Design - arts and healthcare,
  contemporary crafts, ceramics and textiles, Asian
  arts,
• Health Bio photonics, advanced genetics, cell
  molecular biology, ageing, musculoskeletal
  rehabilitation, microbiology,
• Education New policies and practice, Education
  of Children and Young People,
• Creative writing poetry, literary criticism
  English language.
• Sociology and Social Policy New issues on Gender
  Sexuality, Critical Disability Studies, Urban
  Geography
• Aviation, Transport the Environment.
• Advanced joint research in Sensing Imaging.
• Electrochemistry, graphene and carbon nanotubes
• Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

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Centre of Excellence (CoE) Concept

• For an MOU with a Foreign University/Government
• 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.

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How can we cooperate by way of strategic academic
alliance.

• The conventional one focuses more on student
  mobility and to some extent faculty mobility as a
  strategy. We wish to undertake business models
  for strategic academic alliances.
• 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 experience
  with Indian students and faculty.
• Also, such institutions will be provided a
  conductive atmosphere to examine and 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.

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Summing Up

• OCFS/KSHEC will take active part next year in the
  Bharatiya Pravasi Divas in Bengaluru scheduled to
  take place during January 2017. We invite all our
  dignitaries present here as well as the Indian
  diaspora to visit Bengaluru for this program.
• We have written letters to receive Academic
  delegation from Overseas Minister of Higher
  Education and work out specific action plans for
  bilateral cooperation in higher education in
  Karnataka.
• We have recently written to our Ambassadors in
  South East Asian (ASEAN) countries, Oceania, MHRD
  MEA to promote OCFS Karnataka. The response
  have been very positive.
• Our Higher Education and OCFS brochures have been
  circulated to about 60 Embassys in New Delhi and
  about 100 organisations across India to sensitize
  them on the latent potential of Higher Education
  in Karnataka.
• Thank you all.

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Giving a presentation
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Resume

• Mr. Nanjundaiya Ramesh Kumar holds two Masters
  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 as he
  had lived in Brussels, Belgium for 7 years. He
  has spent almost 3 decades overseas. A career
  International Banker with over 30 years of solid
  work experience which he has 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, education tourism and
  consulting. His forte is franchise promotion and
  exploring bilateral trade avenues. He is
  currently working as the Advisor Overseas
  Centre for Foreign Students (OCFS) at the
  Karnataka State Higher Education Council KSHEC
  (Department of Higher Education), Bengaluru. The
  Mission of OCFS is for Internationalisation of
  Higher Education in Karnataka and to promote
  Karnataka globally as an attractive Centre for
  Higher Education. His passion is to motivate
  students and to see that they become global
  citizens. To this end, he teaches a couple of
  courses to M.Com MBA students at the well-known
  Educational Institutions in Bengaluru by sharing
  career experiences, imparting knowledge and
  empowering students.