Indian universities try to woo foreign academicians, what's pushing them awayInstitutions here want more foreign academicians. But pay and visa issues are emerging as tough hurdles.
04 Nov, 2018, 01.21 PM IST
We are able to compete with many countries on faculty pay: R Nagarajan, professor, IIT MadrasThe alumni of various IITs are helping the institutes find global talent and the challenges in tapping into a global talent pool.
03 Nov, 2018, 11.32 PM IST
HRD Ministry to work on easing visa processes for foreign faculty at IITsThe move comes at a time when the government is pushing Indian campuses to get more foreign faculty on board to help improve their internat...
13 Mar, 2018, 10.14 AM IST
IIT Roorkee not to hire its PhD students as faculty membersIt also plans to hire more foreign faculty members as the government has relaxed norms for hiring foreign faculty in IITs.
26 Mar, 2017, 02.27 PM IST
New IITs have better faculty-student ratioDespite their more comfortable situation at the moment, the newer IITs are not slackening pace.
23 Dec, 2016, 07.29 AM IST
IITs hire Indians from foreign shores as faculty to build academic brandIIT Ropar is set to go to three countries and six locations next month scouting campuses from London to LA to hire its new faculty.
06 Apr, 2016, 02.40 AM IST
IITs facing faculty shortage by up to 40%; beefing up compensation packages to attract talentsUsing donations largely from the alumni community, IIT Kanpur also offers a top-up salary of Rs 25,000 or even more to monthly compensation.
12 Jun, 2015, 05.58 AM IST
Times higher education to add India-specific parameters to rankingDomestic institutions have long argued that the rankings do not take into account extenuating “Indian circumstances”.
06 Jan, 2014, 05.39 AM IST
Hiring foreign teachers will now be easier for IITsGiving a big boost to the IITs plan to hire teachers from abroad, the Home Ministry has relaxed the income criteria for grant of employment...
26 Dec, 2013, 07.15 PM IST
IITs go extra mile to draw top-class faculty; offer start-up grants of up to Rs 1 croreLast month, when IIT Kanpur opened its overseas office in New York - fund-raising was one of the drivers behind the move.The other was facu...
11 Oct, 2013, 04.30 AM IST
- Narayana Murthy was right; IITs short of 2500 teachers
India, which has not expanded its R&D institutions for at least three decades, is now stepping on the gas.
18 Oct, 2011, 10.20 AM IST
India's business schools like IIMs need better teachersWith 2,000 business schools estimated in India, the faculty crunch is severe but not unexpected.
05 Sep, 2011, 09.29 AM IST
- IIM-B hires 23 PhDs from foreign varsities as faculty
In its quest to give research a fillip ahead of the entry of foreign universities, the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) is ...
08 Nov, 2010, 02.20 PM IST
- IIMs mull outsourcing for hirings
The faculty crunch is more in practice-oriented study areas such as finance, organisation behaviour, rather than in disciplines like econom...
16 Oct, 2010, 03.50 AM IST
- Facing staff crunch, IITs propose hiring foreign faculty
Facing shortage of teaching staff in the wake of capacity augmentation, IITs have proposed to appoint foreign nationals to its faculty posi...
08 Sep, 2010, 06.51 PM IST
- IITs propose hiring foreign faculty
Facing shortage of teaching staff in the wake of capacity augmentation, IITs have proposed to appoint foreign its faculty.
08 Sep, 2010, 04.06 PM IST
Foreign varsities as mentorsSome hope that entry of foreign universities will lead to dramatically improved standards in education. Others fear the opposite.
01 Apr, 2010, 05.12 AM IST