Concern in RS over illegal tie-ups with foreign institutions

New Delhi, Aug 20 (UNI) The Government today admitted that there was a vacuum in the education policy which some education providers were making use of to collaborate with foreign institutions.

There are 104 such institutes and show cause notices have been issued to some of them on the basis of the report of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Minister of State for Human Resource Development Dr D Purandeswari told the Upper House.

She was replying to a supplementary put up by Ms Brinda Karat of the CPI(M). Ms Karat wanted to know what the government was doing to check such institutions.

Putting up another supplementary, senior Member Dr Karan Singh counselled the Government to consider setting up private universities to meet the growing demand for educational facilities.

''The government should sit with educationists to discuss the issue,' he said.

He also wanted to know about the fate of a related legislation.

The Minister said the Private Universities Bill introduced in Parliament was withdrawn because there was lack of consensus among the states about under whom the subject fell.

UNI