Foreign Faculties to Teach in IIT

Updated on: Wednesday, January 06, 2016

foreign India's leading academic institutions like IITs and IIMs will get foreign faculty members this year under the national GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks) programme. IIT-Kharagpur has been selected as the national coordinator for collaborating with institutions like IIT, IIMs, IISc, NITs etc. under GIAN.

Professor P P Chakrabarti, Director, IIT-Kharagpur, said they have planned to implement 500 such courses by foreign teachers in the year 2015-16 at an outlay of about Rs 35 crore.

These courses are primarily for the credit and made available by the host institution for participation from other institutions. Chakrabarti also said that their flagship programme, the International Summer Winter Term (ISWT), has been implemented at the national-level. Through ISWT, foreign experts will teach in India, they would be encouraged to work on problems related to India and also develop high-quality course material in niche areas, both through video and print, which could be used by a larger body of students and teachers, IIT officials said.

This programme would be executed by the GIAN implementation committee chaired by Vinay Sheel Oberoi, Secretary, Department of Higher Education under the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, the officials said. GIAN would develop avenues for possible collaborations in research with foreign faculty and international students' visits.

It will enable promotion of interaction and learning subject areas for students of different institutes and universities and also provide opportunity for technical candidates from the Indian industry to improve understanding and enhance their knowledge in related areas.

Foreign Faculties to Teach in IIT

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