National Interest,

113 Difficulties in Developing World Class Universities

The Difficulties include Bottlenecks, Barriers, Hindrances, Obstacles & Hurdles in developing World Class Universities or Institutes, which are highlighted  along with genuine opinions of hundreds of experts throughout the world and Solution Space

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Out of national interest, introducing 4th book in the series of books to developed World Class Universities or Institutes in India. This venture can boost the brainstorming on the National Higher Educational Liberalization and Reform Policy like India's Economic Liberalization Policy & Reforms of 1991, which have resulted in the amazing 9% GDP growth rate in 2007.

This book covers almost every difficulty in developing World Class Universities or Institutes in India along with solution space, which can help to frame policies and strategic plans for optimum results on every front, considering ground realities. This knowledge is essential for every academician, who is interested in overall personal, institutional and national growth.

The Indian Higher Education Story Needs To Be Rewritten

In Indian education sector, for private players, there is no ROI and thus resulted in just 2.2% PPP. India needs comprehensive policy for attracting global talent. In 2009, UK universities’ economic output was £59 billion, and amounts to 2.3% of UK GDP. In 2012 the international students contributed $8.0 billion to Canadian economy. In 2012, 765,000 foreign students joined the U.S. campuses and contributed $22.7 billion to the U.S. economy. The brain drain is costing USD 13 billion to India. Total endowment of USA higher education sector crossed USD 400 Billion mark because of involvement of alumni and taxation policy. The 50 top ranking World Class Universities (WCU) get more than USD 1 Billion endowment every year. During 2002-2007, India’s global share of scientific publication was about 3.5 per cent and China’s share has increased from 14% to 21.1%. Indian Universities get only about 10 % of government research funding. Research at higher education institutes accounted for a mere 4% of the total national R&D expenditure. The Indian Scientists of R&D labs (400 National, 1300 private sectors and 870 MNC) don’t teach and faculty of 700 universities are not involved in research activities of these R&D labs. Ranking: India is not having even a single University amongst top ranking 200 WCU. In the Global Employability University Ranking 2012 only one institute, IISc Bangalore, could secure the position. In the Times HE Academic Reputation Ranking 2013, no Indian University or Institute figures in top 100 universities of the world. India is having 16, 9 and 8 times more institutes than China, USA and Entire Europe respectively.

The difficulties includes: Unable to attract global talent, shortage of faculty, vacant faculty positions, brain drain, social status of teacher, attracting foreign players, working conditions & global standards, not-for-profit clause and PPP model, budget allocation but not spending,  UGC budget, 90% budget for operating expenses,  reluctant to generate revenue, tax system and endowment, FDI, fee fixation and capitation fees problem, affordability, salary structure and service condition, privilege to public institutes, funding for private institutes, invest in equity market and no carry forward surpluses, poor research outputs, S&T Indicators, citation, number of PhD and research publications, patents, universities and research laboratories should not be separate, R&D in Indian industries, focus shouldn’t be on bringing technologies, research motivations, mostly for career advancement, research funding: universities gets 10% & higher education gets just 4%, need of research institute involved in teaching, innovation and creativity, focus of premier institute on undergraduate education, research component at undergraduate level, post graduate facilities, curriculum design problem, missing post-doctoral culture, skewed research growth, virtual brain drain by NMC, alumni association, international accreditation, restrictions on foreign players, academic collaborations, internationalization, threat of globalization lack of manpower may shift the business, complex regulatory mechanism, poor quality of higher education, inadequate freedom, not clear direction, coordination of regulatory bodies, growth of affiliated colleges and universities, recognition from university but not from UGC, overloaded system, top most institutes are not universities, loopholes in legal systems, no undergraduate education at university,  need of performance based regulatory mechanism, strange norms, WCU always limited in size and not scalable,  needs professional management, freedom and training, 75% not accredited, scattered funding schemes, no objective for any course, rigid curriculum and lack of multidisciplinary approach, choice based inter university credit system, misuse of platform, vocational training, involvement of teachers in politics, teachers union, not-for-profit clause is only on paper, academic performance indicator, education as a service industry,  retirement age, state wise policy variations and skewed growth, states reluctance for reforms and implementation problems, parliament over delay in passing crucial bills, GER and economic growth, political involvement, the mindset, technology redefining university, global employability, missing center of excellence, industry-institute interface, technology transfer, incubation centers, industrial income, industry inertia & corporate social responsibility. The views on these issues are quoted and discussed along with possible feasible solutions.

The previous books in the series are: "Funding Techniques of World Renowned Universities" "Strategy to Develop World Class Universities” "Technology-Storms Redefining World Class Universities" In Previous 3 books, I have introduced the best practices all over the world for Funding, Strategy and use of Technology.

For national interest I have sacrificed few years for writing this series of 4 books. If you like this e-book then please help me by distributing this free e-book to academicians and students in your contact circle throughout India and World. Jai Hind.

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Dr. Rajiv Dharaskar PhD (Computer Engineering) rajiv.dharaskar@gmail.com www.dharaskar.com