This document discusses the evolution of educational institutions in India and the World Class Institutions scheme launched by the government in 2017. It provides criteria for what constitutes a world-class institution, including rankings, faculty, students, research, and other factors. The scheme aims to identify 10 public and 10 private institutions and provide them financial assistance and autonomy to emerge as top global institutions. Selected institutions are expected to achieve certain targets and will undergo periodic review. So far some progress has been made by selected institutions in improving their rankings in subject-specific categories.

1. University/Educational Institutions
Status in ancient India
Major Shift in Education during British Rule
After Independence: Focus on Education Sector
Since 1990s: Liberalization and private sector
Evolution of Educational Institutes in India- recognition
as world class institutions
Background

2. How do you recognize a World Class Institution:
 Everyone Wants One!
 No One Knows What It is!
 No One Knows how to get one

3. Criteria for Global Ranking
 based on calibrated performance indicators
 weightage to the presence of Nobel laureates, and foreign students and faculty
members

4. Source: Webometrics rankings

5. Stakeholder Mapping
Educational
Institute
Students
Accreditatio
n Agencies
Parents
Staff/Em
ployees
Competit
ors
Government
Enterprises
Alumnus
General
Public
Potential
Students

6. World Class Institutions Scheme
Announcement was made in Budget 2016 and the Scheme was launched in 2017.
To provide an enabling regulatory architecture to ten public and ten private Higher
Educational Institutions to emerge as world-class Teaching and Research Institutions.
The guidelines and regulations comprehensively provide everything right from
recruitment around the world to providing financial assistance to meritorious students.
These Institutions shall be called as ‘Institutions of Eminence (IoEs)’

7. Categories
Existing Government educational institutions.
Existing private higher educational institutions to upgrade themselves to Institutions of
Eminence.
Sponsoring organizations for setting up of new Institutions of Eminence

8. Objectives
To provide for higher education leading to excellence and innovation
To provide for high quality teaching and research and for the advancement of knowledge
To aim to be rated internationally for its teaching and research as a top 100 institutions
in the world over time.
To pay special attention to teaching and research in unique and emerging areas of
knowledge.

9. Expectations
 Multi disciplinary
 Inter-disciplinary including areas of emerging technology.
 Good proportion of foreign or foreign qualified faculty.
 Reasonably good mix of foreign and domestic students
 Transparent merit based selection in admissions.
 The admission process should be need-blind.
 The faculty student ratio should not be less than 1:10.
 Laboratory facilities that do cutting-edge scientific research, research and field work, in frontier
areas using the latest methodologies.
 World-class library with subscriptions to reputed journals with a reasonable number of global
universities.
 Accredited by national assessment and accreditation council.

10. Financial Assistance
Pvt. Institutions No Financial Assistance
Govt. Institutions Upto Rs. 1000 Cr in span of five years

11. Eligibility Criteria
Top five hundred of some of the internationally recognized ranking
frameworks
Source : Scheme Guidelines
Top fifty in the National Institution Ranking Framework in their category
Mix of technical institutions, management and arts institutions

12. Benefits
 Administrative, Academic and Financial Autonomy.
 collaborate with other top 500 Institutes across the world for IoEs.
 freedom to employ people from Industries with expertise over an area.
 freedom to recruit foreign faculty up to 25% of their total faculty
 admissions of foreign students up to 30% of the total admitted students
 UGC Inspection shall not apply to Institutions of Eminence.

13. Selection Process
Application
• Submission of application to UGC.
• a fifteen year strategic vision plan as well as a five year implementation plan
Selection
• Appraisal by Empowered Expert Committee (EEC) formed under UGC.
• Based on the recommendations of UGC and EEC orders will be issued by MoE
Notification
• The strategic and implementation plans for each selected IoEs would be
converted into a MoU.

14. Monitoring and Review
 By Empowered Expert Committee.
 Review once in a Three Years.
 Monitoring of progress every year.
 Any other shorter periodicity decided by EEC for guiding and supervising.
 Self report and public display of certain information.

15. Penalties
 Removal of IoE status
 Withdrawing of any or all additional incentives
 Any other penal provision available in the Statute under which the
Institution was set up.
 Stopping of admission for specified number of years.

16. Public
Institutions
Private
Institutions
 BHU
 IISc, Bagaluru
 IIT, Bombay
 IIT, Delhi
 IIT Kharagpur
 IIT, Madras
 Delhi University
 University of
Hyderabad
 Anna University
 Jadavpur
University
 BITS, Pilani
 O.P Jindal Global University
 Manipal Academy of Higher Education
 Shiv Nadar University
 Jamia Hamdard
 Jio Institute
 Kalinga Institute of Industrial
Technology
 Satya Bharti University
 Vellore Institute of Technology.
 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,
Coimbatore

17. Progress so far..
 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangaluru jumped from 113th to 98th
in mechanical engineering
 IIT, Madras ranks in the 51-100 band for civil and structural
engineering
 IIT, Delhi ranks 92nd for chemical engineering
 IIT, Bombay is at the 99th spot in materials science
 IISc, Bangaluru for physics and astronomy ranks 91, up from 112
 O P Jindal Global University, also an IoE, has been placed at the 70th
position for Law

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