Improving Quality
Education
As per Times Higher Education (THE)
World University Rankings - 2018 and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World
University Ranking-2018, (25) and (20) Institutions / Universities
respectively found place in the top 1000 world University ranking.
University Grants Commission (UGC) issued /
notified enabling regulatory architecture in the form of UGC (Declaration of
Government Educational Institutions as Institutions of Eminence) Guidelines,
2017 and UGC (Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities) Regulations,
2017 to enable 10 public and 10 private Institutions to emerge as World Class
Teaching and Research Institutions, details of which are available on UGC
website www.ugc.ac.in. These
Institutions shall be called as ‘Institutions of Eminence (IoEs)’.
The aim of the scheme is to bring higher
educational institutions selected as IoEs in top 500 of world ranking in the
next 10 years and in top 100 eventually overtime. The scheme has been launched
with an objective to provide world class teaching and research facilities to
Indian students within the country and enhance general level of education of
the country. The salient features are available in the UGC Guidelines and the
UGC Regulations under which greater autonomy viz. to admit foreign students up
to 30% of admitted students; to recruit foreign faculty upto 25% of faculty
strength; to offer online courses upto 20% of its programmes; to enter into
academic collaboration with top 500 in the world ranking Institutions without
permission of UGC; free to fix and charge fees from foreign students without
restriction; flexibility of course structure in terms of number of credit hours
and years to take a degree; complete flexibility in fixing of curriculum and
syllabus, etc. has been provided to IoEs.
Under this scheme, IoEs will have freedom to
choose their own path to become world class institutions. Institutions shall be
selected as IoEs by the Empowered Expert Committee (EEC), constituted for this
purpose. The EEC shall conduct their appraisal based on their 15 years
strategic vision plan and 5 years implementation plan as well as any other
measure of demonstrated commitment to the cause of developing an Institution of
Eminence. The EEC will make its recommendation after engagement with the
Institutions to study their proposals, hear presentations from them and after a
thorough scrutiny, rank the Institutions for their suitability for inclusion in
this scheme.
Each Public Institution selected as IoE will be
provided financial assistance up to Rs. 1000 Cr over a period of five years.
The last date for submission of applications
for IoEs has been extended by UGC upto 22.02.2018. Till date, 71 applications
have been received from public sector for IoEs.
Regards!
Librarian
Rizvi
Institute of Management
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