These select institutions are expected to break into
the global top 500 in 10 years
The UGC and the AICTE — the apex higher education
regulators — will lose their powers to regulate 20 higher educational
institutions that the Centre will project as Institutions of Eminence.
The idea, a top source in the Ministry of Human
Resource Development (MHRD) said, is to choose 10 government and 10 private
institutions and offer them complete autonomy.
Total autonomy
These select institutions would be expected to break
into the top 500 world rankings in a decade. They would have complete freedom
to decide the curricula, hire domestic and foreign faculty at variable pay, and
fix a fee structure of their choice.
“The architecture also provides for financial support
...so that meritorious but poor students do not lose the opportunity to study,”
the source added.
The Centre has firmed up the basic framework of the
scheme. To begin with, a search-cum-selection-committee comprising the Cabinet
Secretary, the Secretary (Higher Education) and the UGC chairman will be set up
to choose an empowered expert committee comprising prominent scholars and
eminent persons, the source said.
The committee would be free to pick 20 institutions
from among those that apply for the status. “We plan to allow only those
institutions that are among the top 50 in the NIRF [National Institute Ranking
Framework] rankings and have a consistent A-plus score in the National
Assessment and Accreditation Council grading to apply for this scheme,” said
the source.
Source | The Hindu | 5 August 2017
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