Impact of Globalization on Indian Technical Education System

Abstract

The internationalization of higher education can be linked to various internal and external changes in the international system. Externally, there have been changes in the labour market, which have resulted in calls for more knowledge and skilled workers, and workers with deeper understandings of languages, cultures and business methods all over the world. Education is becoming more invaluable to individuals. In today's environment, education provides individuals with a better chance of employment, which in turn leads to a better lifestyle, power and status. A global education should teach about issues that cross national boundaries, and interconnected systems on ecological, cultural, economical, political and technological grounds such as the Globalization program which draws upon expertise in many areas such as humanities, social science and environmental science. Globalization and technological advancements are delivering and increasing access to the world and subsequently subjects should reflect this global outlook. It is a fact that the world is moving fast in technological developments and subsequently there is much advancement and reforms in teaching methodology and the contest of courses in developed countries. It is time in our country have to achieve at par that excellence in our teaching programs . According to the findings of one survey made public last year, none of our universities including the IIT’s has appeared in ranking of first top 100 universities of the world. It is therefore, stands appropriate to think that if some of bright ranked foreign universities come to India, we will have their standard of excellence to compare with at home for our own growth and the development. The students and the country can also accrue benefits from foreign universities in India. Not only the students and their parents will be partially relieved from their financial burden but there will be reduction in brain drain of the country. Our youth will get psychological satisfaction getting degrees of foreign university here itself and will able to contribute to serve the country enjoying the life on home-front thereafter. Again we in our country are not so equipped now to fulfill the necessary requirement of admissions facility and infrastructure for some of the advanced post graduate technical and other professional courses. By encouraging setting up of foreign university in India, the country will get advantage of coming near to the world class faculty of excellence and various reforms of the methodology of the teaching and education prevalent threat . We will also be able to develop research culture in our institutions and the universities for which we lack in.