Government
gets 100 applications from educational institutions for the World Class
University tag
Government had approved the enabling
regulatory architecture for setting up / upgrading of 10 public and 10 private
Institutions of Eminence so as to enable them to reach amongst top 100 of world
institutions ranking. Accordingly, applications were invited, for which the
last date was 12.12.2017. Overall 100 applications have been received.
·
Under
Public Sector - 10
·
Central
Universities - 25
·
State
Universities - 6
·
Deemed
to be Universities - 20
·
Institutions
of National Importance and 6 Standalone Institutions have applied.
·
Under
Private Sector - 9
·
Private
Universities and 16 Deemed to be Universities have applied in brownfield
category and
·
8
Institutions have applied in greenfield category
The selection shall be made through challenge method mode by the Empowered
Expert Committee constituted for the purpose. The selected 20 institutions
shall be named as “Institutions of Eminence” which will have freedom to choose
their own path to become world class institutions.
These institutions shall be provided
with 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.
Regards
Pralhad Jadhav
Senior Manager @ Knowledge
Repository
Khaitan & Co
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