The Meeting of the Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care (ECAQA) and the Medical Council of India in New Delhi, India 2018

On March 26, 2018, with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of India, Prof. Sarsenbayeva S.S., the Director General of the Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care (ECAQA) had a meeting with Dr. Jayshree Mehta, the President of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and discussed about possible collaboration on quality assurance in medical education, considering current study’ experience of students from India at the Kazakhstan Medical Universities. The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the MCI and the ECAQA is scheduled.

The Medical Council of India (MCI) was founded in 1934 in accordance with the Indian Medical Council Act 1933 and is the regulatory body to establish the unified standards for medical education in India. The Council carries out the recognition of medical qualifications in India and abroad, conducts accreditation of medical colleges and controls the quality of medical practice in India. https://www.mciindia.org/CMS/about-mci/introduction

Education has been widely accepted as going beyond the imparting of formal knowledge. Some view education as being a social entitlement and replica of social difference, which is notably significant in higher education (HE). Therefore, many welfare states have made effort to enhance access to HE through meritocratic means and widening participation strategies. While some argued that this can decrease differential access to universities by widening the market, and reduce the need for an overseas education, thereby leading to a decline in international student mobility; reality has proved otherwise. In fact, student migration has increased in recent years, contributing to one of the major forms of modern international mobility.

This paper sheds light on longer-term ‘degree mobility’, characterised as the pursuit of a university degree abroad. Although the number of foreign students studying in the UK still outweighs the number of UK students pursuing a higher education abroad, the numbers are not insignificant. They may be the reason to the rise of one of the many ‘new mobilities’ responsible for reshaping the modern society. However, one can counterclaim that international student mobility constitutes a critical means of aggravating social difference within the globalising higher education system.

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