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Higher Education Reform: Government Makes It Easy For Foreign Faculty To Teach At IITs
IIT Kharagpur (Saikat Sarkar/Wikimedia Commons)
The National Democratic Alliance government has been keen on reforming the higher education sector. A part of its goal with Indian universities has been to create “world class institutions”, as NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya called them earlier this year.
Now, in what seems like a continuing theme of internationalising higher education in India, the government has cleared the way for Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to hire foreign faculty on their own accord, that is, without having to take prior political clearance to have them teach in India.
The Economic Times reports:
Now, this hurdle has been cleared.
The visa regime for Indian institutes holding scientific conferences, in addition to visiting academics, will especially be relaxed. The only exception to this relaxation of regulation is faculty coming in from Prior Requirement Countries.
For now, since a new regulatory system still needs to be put in place, the external affairs ministry will take up the job of clearing all conference proposals and will do it within eight weeks.
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