2. Choose your role:

Roles 1, 2. Minister of Human Resource Development and his Deputy.

Role 3. President of Students Federation of India and MP.

Role 4. Minister of Science and Technology.

Roles 5, 6. Minister of Finance and his Deputy.

3. Study your role and get ready to present it:

Roles 1, 2. You are Minister of Human Resource Development and his Deputy. You require more spending on education. Your reasons:

• For the reforms in the Indian education sector to yield desired result, the government spending has to be at least 6 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product compared to far higher figures in the United States and European countries.

• The need to provide more resources to schools to improve opportunities for students.

• Spending more on public education improves academic achievements.

Role 3. You are President of Students Federation of India and MP. You are FOR more spending on education. Your reasons:

• The Government's share of expenditure on education was 10 per cent with the balance coming from the private sector.

• You think that the Government should dispel the notion that ‘education has become a trade', by making the right moves without supporting the idea of American Universities coming to India.

• Several other measures like enhancing the subsidies for socially and economically backward students and strengthening the functioning of regulatory bodies like University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have to be taken and implemented properly.

Role 4. You are Minister of Science and Technology. You are FOR more spending on education. Your reasons:

• The country cannot develop high technologies if the Government spending on education is so low: last year it was just 2.84 per cent of the GDP and it was well below one per cent on higher education.

• To be a competitive country you have to train high-qualified specialists, which is impossible without spending enough money on their education and training.

• An educated population leads to increased productivity which, in turn, can contribute effectively to output growth.

Roles 5, 6. You are Minister of Finance and his Deputy. You are AGAINST more spending on education. Your reasons:

• You have more urgent problems of poverty, livelihood, health, and security.

• You need money on rural authorities, roads, drinking water, telecom, irrigation and housing.

• Indian students and their families are today starving for more knowledge education. America is a world leader in terms of higher education and research and can contribute to the development of India’s education. The USA are ready to open their universities in the country.

Role 7. You are Prime-Minister and chair the session of the Government. At present, you are NEUTRAL, but you must decide before the end of the meeting. You should remember that the year began as a difficult one. There was a significant slowdown in the growth rate in the second half of the previous year. It was also a year of reckoning for the policymakers, who had taken a calculated risk in providing substantial fiscal expansion to counter the negative fallout of the global slowdown. Inevitably, India’s fiscal deficit increased from the end of 2007-08, reaching 6.8 per cent of GDP in 2009-10. A delayed and severely subnormal monsoon added to the overall uncertainty. The continued recession in the developed world, for the better part of 2009-10, meant a sluggish export recovery and a slowdown in financial flows into the economy.

Unit 4. Corporate Morals. The Psychology of Power

Role play “At the Anti-Corruption Conference” Exercise 20, page 37.