Governance
Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme
- 06 Sep 2019
- 2 min read
Recently, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has declared 5 public Universities as Institutions of Eminence (IoE).
- The institutes are:
- IIT Madras
- Banaras Hindu University
- IIT Kharagpur
- University of Delhi
- University of Hyderabad
- Earlier, in the first round under the IoE scheme, 6 institutions were selected as IoEs.
- Benefits of being included in Institutions of Eminence (IoEs) includes:
- Government Institutions to get additional funding upto 1000 Crore.
- Complete academic, administrative as well as financial autonomy.
- Exemption from government approvals for Academic collaborations with foreign higher educational institutions (in top 500)
- Freedom to hire personnel from industry
- Freedom to recruit faculty from outside India (limit of 25% of its faculty strength for public institution).
- Freedom to have own transparent merit based system for admission of students.
- Freedom to admit additionally foreign students on merit (maximum of 30% of the strength of admitted domestic students).
- Freedom to offer courses within a program as well as to offer degrees in newer areas.
- Freedom to have the flexibility of course structure.
- Flexibility in fixing of curriculum and syllabus, with no UGC mandated curriculum structure.
- Freedom to offer online courses as part of their programmes(But not more than 20% of the programme)
- University Grants Commission (UGC) inspection shall not apply to Institutions of Eminence.
