I see the following refreshing change in the faculty professional lives 馃檪
a) a definitely more competitive environment due to 100 top foreign institutes moving in. It would afford opportunities to the bright faculty to switch to the much greener pastures 馃檪
b) self-skilling and up-skilling would be essential to teach vocational courses, hereinafter essential in every HE. You will gain new skills and have more opportunities 馃檪
c) added opportunities for multi-disciplinary teaching, a subject of your passion since every institute would eventually turn multi-disciplinary 馃檪
d) freedom to fix fee with justification, will give a bandwidth to institutes to charge added fee, which in turn would hopefully result in a hike in the faculty salary, if the same is passed on to faculty 馃檪
(e) GER 50% perspective target would create more opportunities for the ODL programs, hence more teaching options. A quality public institute per district and a much larger annual budget outlay will need more experienced teachers like you for the upcoming institutes 馃檪
(f) increased benefit of faculty exchange and collaborative research with 100 foreign institutes and their labs 馃檪
-Prof JR Sharma is an internationally renowned Mentor to institutes of higher education.
