Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever, the UGC denied the tag to five private universities\n\u2014 Azim Premji University, Ashoka University, KREA University, Indian Institute\nfor Human Settlements and the Indian Institute of Public Health \u2014 on the\ngrounds that they have not been placed in any global or national rankings.\nSince their exclusion left a vacant slot on the list of private universities\ngiven the tag, the Satya Bharti Foundation \u2014 telecom major Airtel\u2019s\nphilanthropic arm \u2014 became the second greenfield institution to be given IoE\nstatus, after Jio Institute which is backed by the Reliance Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe considered two types [of institutions], those who are\nalready ranked well and those which are potential institutions. We might have\nfelt something has potential, but government may feel something else, they may\nhave felt that if an institution is not ranked at all, it cannot be considered.\nIt is entirely justified,\u201d said N. Gopalaswami, former Chief Election\nCommissioner who headed the expert panel which initially identified the list of\nIoEs. He told The Hindu, \u201cGreenfield institutions should not have been included\nin the category of private institutions at all. It should have been a separate\ncategory. But having been included, it was fair to consider them differently,\nwithout looking at rankings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Institute of Eminence scheme aimed at developing 20\nworld-class institutions which would put India on the global education map.\nThose selected will be given greater autonomy and freedom to decide fees,\ncourse durations and governance structures. The public institutions will also\nreceive a government grant of \u20b91,000 crore, while the private institutions will\nnot get any funding under the scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Gopalaswami panel initially recommended 11 institutions\nfor the tag in July 2018. The Centre had then accepted six recommendations \u2014\nIITs Delhi and Bombay, IISc Bangalore, BITS Pilani, Manipal University, and the\nyet-to-open Jio University. In December, the committee recommended 19 more\nnames and asked the UGC to consider all 30 for the tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, following the Ministry of Human Resource\nDevelopment\u2019s decision to limit the scheme to the original 20 institutions \u2014 10\nprivate and 10 public \u2014 the UGC was forced to prune the list at its meeting on\nFriday. It chose to use the criterion of the QS-2020 world rankings, with the\nQS-2019 India rankings and NIRF rankings used as a tie-breaker. Any institution\nthat did not figure in any rankings was excluded completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe first purpose of the IoE scheme is to take existing universities\nto global competitive status, and so we must consider their existing rankings.\nThe other purpose is the need to get investment to build up world class\ninstitutions, hence the greenfield institutions on the list. Those left out are\nneither here nor there; they fall into a gap between the two categories,\u201d\nexplained a senior official of the Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Five public universities also did not make the cut. Tezpur,\nPanjab and Andhra Universities were left out as they are not ranked. Savitribai\nPhule Pune University and Aligarh Muslim University are both in the same\n801-1,000 ranking slab in the QS World rankings as the Benares Hindu\nUniversity; however, BHU squeaked through as it was higher placed than the\nother two in the India rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anna University and Jadavpur University have been given the\nIoE tag on a conditional basis as they are state universities, and will be\nfinalised only after the Tamil Nadu and West Bengal governments issue an\nofficial communication allocating their share of funds (up to 50%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other institutions which have been recommended for IoE\nstatus are Jamia Hamdard, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, OP Jindal\nUniversity and Shiv Nadar University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UGC\u2019s recommendations will now be submitted to the\nMinistry for final grant of the status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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