Exporting education from India

Business Standard reports (via Rediff)

A focussed programme to establish India as a quality destination for higher education is being drawn by the Educational Consultants India Limited (EdCIL), a Government of India enterprise, which is planning to attract at least 1,500 foreign students from countries across Asia and Africa in the next year.

It expects an estimated revenue of $5 million -- paid by foreign students in 2004-05.

EdCIL plans for a revenue growth target of 200 per cent for education exports in 2004-05. The strategy is to aggressively market Indian education in Asian (SAARC, Middle East, and South East Asia) and African countries, which have been identified as the potential markets.

This will be done through personalised visits, publicity in these countries and working closely with the country missions, universities, and NRI/PIO bodies in these countries.

The number of target countries is being increased to 24 from 8 last year. The focus countries this year will be Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE and Yemen.

An additional 25 institutions will be brought under the EdCIL programme for promoting Indian education abroad. It proposes to target more premier institutions in the public and private sectors for signing MoUs. These institutions will benefit from enhanced inflow of international students in India.

To make the campaign effective, EdCIL is promoting India as a country with a vast and developed network of 300 universities of higher learning and over 15,000 colleges in the fields of engineering, IT, bio-tech, agriculture, management, medicine, pharmacy, arts, science, commerce, humanities and social sciences among others.

The government has created an exclusive scheme called Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA) wherein 15 per cent of seats have been reserved in premier technical institutions such as the National Institutes of Technology (formerly the Regional Engineering Colleges) and centrally funded institutions for foreign nationals/PIOs/NRIs.

According to Ajit Motwani, technical director, EdCIL, education is a sizeable and growing exports business. The education and training sector ranks fifth in export of services in the United States.

It is estimated that there are almost 1.8 million students studying outside their home country worldwide. He says that India has a great potential to attract international student traffic.

Important factors considered by students while looking for international education options are cost, proximity, and overlap with their cultural values. For countries in Asia and Africa, India offers a friendly environment, cultural diversity and more importantly the best value for money options.

He said one of the underlying benefits of increased international student traffic is the resultant globalisation of the campuses. It is aimed to leverage education at affordable cost proposition to further accelerate the process of creation of modern infrastructure in the tertiary education sector.

Apart from foreign exchange, other non-quantifiable benefits like two-way supports in trade, investments, and closer international business connections will be the result of such an initiative.

Ed. CIL has a web site (http://www.edcil.co.in), but their site seems to be currently inaccessible. Individual educational institutions themselves need to get more aggressive in marketing and promoting Indian education abroad rather than relying solely on Ed. CIL. Why isn't the Association for Indian Universities doing anything? Why aren't the IITs and IIMs doing anything, despite being India's best known brands abroad? IDP Australia, an independent not-for-profit organisation owned by 38 of 39 Australian universities is aggressively exporting Australian education to India.

Note: The average annual tuition fee for foreign students in India is in the region of about US$ 3,500. Adding another $1,500 per year as annual living expenses, that works out to US$ 5,000 per student per year and Ed.CIL is aiming for an annual revenue of US$ 5 million over the current year. For perspective, according to the Ministry of Tourism, the average foreign exchange earnings per tourist works out to about US$ 1,250 per tourist and about 950,000 tourists visited India during the period Jan-March 2004 with a total earnings of US$ 1.16 billion.

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