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US helping India to establish community
colleges
Wednesday April 25, 2012 11:48:27 AM, Arun
Kumar,
IANS
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Washington:
The United States is working with India to flesh out an initiative
to set up hundreds of community colleges in India on the American
pattern, according to state department spokesperson Victoria
Nuland.
"Well, obviously, we support this initiative," she told reporters
Tuesday when asked about the visit of education ministers from
several Indian states to explore the possibility of opening such
publicly funded two-year institutions that primarily attract
students from the local community.
The state department, Nulanad said, has "been working with the
Indian side to flesh out the initiative" that was agreed between
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, through
its education bureau.
Asked if the Indian degrees are accepted in the United States, she
said that was on a case-by-case issue depending upon where they
graduated from and where they're looking to get accredited from.
"So obviously, if there's a sister university relationship,
sometimes those accreditations can be recognized, but it just
depends on what they want to do," Nuland said. "I don't think
there's a blanket way of looking at that."
The United States had also not changed its policy for the issue of
student visas after the closure of a couple of sham universities
affected hundreds Indian students, but the US institutions get
greater scrutiny, she said.
"I think what we are doing is making sure that the sponsoring
organizations truly are what they say they are in the United
States; that if they say that they are bringing students over to
educate them, that they intend to educate them, not put them to
work, et cetera."
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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