Each top institute has been allocated one or more geographical area where it will be responsible for the recruitment of global teaching tal...

IITs have become talent hunting grounds for institutes which are scooping up students for faculty roles.

A ministry official said the larger idea is to solve the problem of faculty crunch in IITs. He said it is ironical that despite around 2,00...

Every year, 5-15% students fail to get any job offers. “Internship will make room for more students in the final placement season,” Debasis...

Using donations largely from the alumni community, IIT Kanpur also offers a top-up salary of Rs 25,000 or even more to monthly compensation.

Thinking local, both in terms of faculty as well as research work, has propelled a rank outsider like IIT-Guwahati to the global list of to...

Last 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...

The delay in construction of the campuses of the eight new IITs has not affected the "standards of education" and pace of research, Raju sa...

Considering the shortage of academic staffs in old and reputable colleges, one would assume the condition of newly created institutes would...

Prestigious IITs got a thumbs up from Microsoft CEO and wanted to see some of the "finest and brightest" Indian minds with him at his offic...

In the 1980s, anyone who walked into a packed class at the Indian Institutes of Technology was a grey-haired wise 60-year-old.

More than a week after the faculty members of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) went on mass casual leave, protesting against pay disp...

IITs are planning to adopt a multi-pronged strategy, including holding job fairs abroad, to attract quality teachers for the premier instit...

Universities which until last year lost out to corporates when it came to hiring IITians can now get the candidates they wanted.

Earlier this year, the HRD ministry announced eight new IITs, addressing the need for expanding technical education and the aspirations of ...

It will not only help professionals keep in touch with academia, but it's also a great advantage for students to know how things work in th...

Aspiring students are aplenty. Buoyant corporates are queuing up, offering multiple job offers and sky-high salaries. But at the back-end, ...