b555 Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal said Indian will soon have 'navratna' universities on the lines of the famous Ivy League. They would be given ample funds, freedom to accept funds from outside and also freedom from the shackles of the government, he said at the 98th Indian Science Congress. "We are working on the concept of having navratna universities or an Indian Ivy League. We intend to nurture these select universities, like the public sector navratnas, by generous financial support, freedom in accessing external funding and total autonomy so as to free them from the shackles of government control," he said speaking on the topic. The eight Ivy League institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. "With regard to our existing navratnas — the IITs and IIMs — we are according full powers to their boards to create posts within the approved norms, top up the salaries of the directors and faculty from the funds generated by them, open centres in India and abroad, amend rules within the framework of their Memorandums of Association and Rules, acquire and dispose property and manage funds generated on their own," he said. [/quote would be really interesting to see how much free from govt can these institutions be !
yoda Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Ivy League Schools themselves aren't the top institutions in the US with places like MIT, Cal Tech, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU and others missing. It consists of a few private schools in one specific part of the country. Not sure why we want to use that term which is used more in context of elitism as opposed to just excellence. Regarding the IITs and IIMs, it seems like the govt is doing anything but giving them freedom including trying to modify the admissions process.
punjabi_khota Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Lol 20-30% faculty shortage in the 7 IITs and he's talking about creating ivies in India :mad:
b555 Posted January 4, 2011 Author Posted January 4, 2011 Lol 20-30% faculty shortage in the 7 IITs and he's talking about creating ivies in India :mad: national science congress so he is trying his best and showing off
hari504504 Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 I am excited about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda_International_University Ivy league wont be so Ivy anymore once they introduce the reservation bakwaas, For god's sake let everyone take competitive exams and interviews and let the best ones in.
Clarke Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Lol 20-30% faculty shortage in the 7 IITs and he's talking about creating ivies in India :mad: He's promising financial freedom though, i hope that means the professors do not have to be content with the salary of FOB joining TCS.
achilles Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Hope the Ivy League univs don't have quota system. It sounds good otherwise. Faculty shortage is a major problem though.
hari504504 Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Hope the Ivy League univs don't have quota system. It sounds good otherwise. Faculty shortage is a major problem though. trust the vote beggars to bring quota into everything... Nalanda cannot be touched though due to foreign partners who would laugh while kicking these politicans out the door...
Ram Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Sorry to pour water on fire, but Ivy League universities? Our general attitude to education, especially college education and beyond, is appalling. What most of our universities do is to help students in only one thing – specialize in rote learning. With the exception of a handful of schools, our research culture is almost non-existent. Just creating an exclusive university and calling it ‘world-class’ isn’t going to change anything. What it will result in, is the intensification of the already existing culture of punishing students in high-school to make sure they get into the ‘top-ranked’ colleges. In India, education is just a succession of races to get into a better educational instiutition. Until this attitude changes and people are genuinely inspired by quest for knowledge and research, you can open as many universities you want and nothing will ever change.
ViruRulez Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Let him first complete the Nalanda University for which I have great hopes as it would become a global institution at least for the whole of SouthEast Asia. If he brings private funding then even Ivies comparable institutions would not be a problem.
hari504504 Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 Let him first complete the Nalanda University for which I have great hopes as it would become a global institution at least for the whole of SouthEast Asia. If he brings private funding then even Ivies comparable institutions would not be a problem. I hope to enroll in Nalanda ..Economics..
vaibhav_delhi Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 Sibbal has done a brilliant job for primary n secondary school education till now. A proactive and reformative minister he is. Not sure abt this move though.
Crookbond Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 Only one Indian institute in the top 500 world universities http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/only-one-indian-institute-in-the-top-500-world-universities/article5026452.ece?homepage=true India’s higher educational institutions have once again failed to find a respectable place in the world’s top 500 universities. Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is the only institution that figures somewhere between 300 and 400 as ranked by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for 2013. American universities have captured 17 positions of the top 20 slots, with two going to the British universities and one being occupied by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich. Of the 500 universities ranked, American universities captured a total of 182 slots; European universities occupied 200 slots — but only three made the top 20. As many as 17 Chinese universities were included as well. Harvard University has been described as the world’s best university with a score of 100; followed by Stanford University with a score of 72.6. University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and University of Cambridge have scored around 71 points. The IISc has just about held on to its last year’s slot but improved its performance in the Departments of Chemistry and Computer Science. In the former, the Institute has jumped two ranks from 45 in 2012 to 43 this year and in the latter from a range of 101-150 in the past to 51-75 in 2013. In Natural Science and Mathematics, and Engineering Technology and Computer Science, the score remains stagnant, ranging between 151-200 and 76-100 respectively. ARWU, also known as Shanghai Rankings, considers every university that has any Nobel Laureates, field medallists, highly cited researchers, or papers published in Nature or Science. In addition, universities with significant amount of papers indexed by the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) are also included. In total, more than 1000 universities are actually ranked, and the best 500 are published on the web. Universities are also ranked by several indicators of academic or research performance, and the per capita academic performance of an institution. For each indicator, the highest scoring institution is assigned a score of 100, and other institutions are calculated as a percentage of the top score.
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