Indian varsities need to blow their trumpets to improve ranking: QS officials
Indian universities and higher educational institutions need to work on “globally relevant” indicators and start blowing their own trumpet in order to improve their international rankings, according to officials at QS World Ranking.
Indian universities and higher
educational institutions need to work on “globally relevant” indicators and
start blowing their own trumpet in order to improve their international
rankings, according to officials at QS World Ranking.
The QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) and
Times Higher Education (THE), both of which are based in London, are two of the
most prominent higher education surveys in the world.
But even the most celebrated
Indian institutes - including the IITs and the Indian Institute of Science
(IISc) - have consistently failed to crack the top 100 in these lists, with
western institutions such as Oxford University and MIT continuing to hold the
top positions.
“There are some excellent
universities in India in terms of academic output and research credibility but
how many global students know about it? The very purpose of having world
university ranking is to allow foreign students to be able to just pick up the
ranking and see which institution is worth going to and what is offered where,”
Ashwin Fernandes, from QS Rankings told PTI in an interview.
“Hence, Indian institutions must
thrive to be excellent at globally relevant indicators,” he said.
Fernandes, who is the Regional
Director for QS Intelligence Unit in Middle East, North Africa and South Asia said,
“India has a huge amount of potential in becoming a leader of global higher
education; However, it is disappointing to see the country fall out in the
rankings table every year, with only a small number of institutions registering
progress”.
This year, three Indian
institutes -- IIT-Bombay, IIT-Delhi and IISc-Bangalore -- had found spots among
the top 200 in the prestigious world university rankings released by QS. While
none of the Indian institutions made it to the top 200 list in the THE ranking.
The HRD Ministry had also called
a review meeting with officials at QS including Fernandes to examine the
reasons behind several prestigious Indian varsities, including JNU and the
Hyderabad University, not finding top spots ranking.
“Indian universities also need to
learn to blow their own trumpets. The fact that IISc Bangalore has produced two
ISRO chiefs is not known to many and unless they take the word abroad the score
on academic reputation, a criteria with heavy weightage in QS ranking will be
low.
“And by publicity I do not mean
institutions should hire advertisement slots on prime time television or place
huge hoardings, there should be more networking globally. Connecting with
alumni, outreach programmes, summer schools, winter schools, all these things
need to be done” Fernandes said.
Source | https://www.hindustantimes.com
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