Offshore IITs should offer programmes in data science, AI, robotics, mining: Education ministry report | Education News,The Indian Express
The report, which is being considered by the Centre, also suggested a varied admission criteria, small student intake, flexible faculty contracts, and options for Indian IIT students to study abroad
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Offshore IITs should offer programmes in data science, AI, robotics, mining: Education ministry report
The report, which is being considered by the Centre, also suggested a varied admission criteria, small student intake, flexible faculty contracts, and options for Indian IIT students to study abroad
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New Delhi | Updated: August 25, 2022 3:33:30 pm
It recommended varied modes of admission, including JEE, GATE, JAM , SAT and GRE. (Representative image. File)The proposed offshore IIT campuses should offer undergraduate degree programs in data science, Artificial Intelligence, robotics, mining and energy, an Education ministry report noted, among other recommendations.
As per the report, which is being considered by the Centre, the prospective courses have been decided based on feedback from Indian embassies abroad, which reached out to the authorities of the host nations in order to gauge the demand of various disciplines in their respective countries.
“The survey shows that most of the universities in the nations targeted initially have undergraduate programs in conventional disciplines…From the feedback shared by the ambassadors of the identified host nations, the most frequently mentioned disciplines are related to computer science or Information Technology, data sciences, AI, machine learning or robotics, electrical, electronics, mining, metallurgy, petroleum and energy,” the report stated.
Additionally, since Bachelor of Science (BS) and Masters of Science (MS) are the commonly used names for degrees internationally, the academic programmes will be named accordingly, instead of Bachelor of Technology (BTech) and Masters of Technology (MTech), as is the convention in India, the committee noted.
It recommended varied modes of admission, including JEE, GATE, JAM , SAT and GRE. “A JEE or JEE (Advanced) exclusively for off-shore campuses can be conceived in the future if it’s economically and logistically viable”.
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