Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
have planned to open the premier engineering institutions to more
foreign students at the post-graduate and research levels. The premier
technical institutes have also planned to step inter-disciplinary
research collaborations tailored to meet the national development
agenda.
The decision comes in the
wake of deciding to make a mark on international ranking lists for
educational institutions. It was reported that it was agreed at a
retreat of IIT Directors, hosted by the Union Human Resource Development
Ministry recently.
According to
reports, in advocating greater intake of foreign students, the IITs see a
double-advantage. First, it will help internationalise IITs. As per the
report of the IIT Ranking Committee — which was presented and accepted
at the Retreat — IITs are “weak, almost nowhere, on
internationalisation”. It was reported that the motive is like their own
alumni who have returned from foreign universities to work in India but
continue to fondly recall their campus days overseas, the hope is that
foreign students of IITs would become IIT brand ambassadors.
The IITs have also decided to set up design schools to develop a design spine in Engineering education.
According to a concept note, this would be done by not just making
design an autonomous field of education by establishing centres or
departments for design in IITs but also ensuring that design thinking
percolates into other areas of expertise.
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