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Three Indian Institutions figure in THE World University Rankings 2012-13

Three Indian Institutions figure in THE World University Rankings 2012-13

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2012-13 has ranked three Indian institutions in the list of top 400 universities across the globe. The three institutions are Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) namely IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Roorkee. Last year, IIT Bombay was the only one institution from India that was able to make it to the list.

THE World ranking is regarded among the best ranking systems in the world and the data is collected and analysed by Thomson Reuters. Though none of the Indian higher education institutions were able to make it to the top 200 in the rankings of 2012-13 but this year IIT Kharagpur stands at 234 rank. However, previous year’s ranking it was nowhere in the top 400. IIT Bombay has jumped 60 positions and has been ranked at 258 registering considerable improvement from last year’s rank at 317. IIT Roorkee, which is ranked at 367 in the world, was nowhere in the list of top 400 institutions last year.   

Times Higher Education World University Rankings judges universities on parameters such as teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook based on 13 calibrated performance indicators. Teaching and learning environment gets 30 per cent while Research in terms of volume, income and reputation also counts for 30 per cent and Citations in terms of research influence is worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score. On the other hand industry income by innovation is worth 2.5 per cent and international outlook of the university which include staff, students and research gets 7.5 per cent weightage.

It is again California Institute of Technology which has retained its number one position with overall score of 95.5 better than last year which was 94.8. University of Oxford has jumped three positions from last year’s fourth to this year sharing second spot with Stanford University with an overall score of 93.7. Harvard University has slipped three positions from last year’s second sport to fourth this year with overall score of 93.6. the rest of the institutions have retained their spot among the top 10 universities are Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Chicago and University of California.

by Abhay Anand

Integrated Programmes: Providing better prospects to student community

“Integrated Courses” is more or less accepted by the Indian education system now, with top institutions admitting students in these courses. Many premiere institutions like IITs and IIMs and some of the central universities have taken the lead and have begun offering flexible dual degree and integrated courses across streams. Education experts and policy makers have been talking about it for long time with Prof. Yashpal recommending it few years back.

The integrated programmes have a curriculum that comprises of content jointly designed by two or more higher education disciplines regulated by a specific set of guidelines. These programs are innovative in nature with new curriculum and better insight on subjects. Now, integrated courses are being offered in almost all the disciplines from humanities to engineering, ranging from multi-disciplinary to super-specialisation and duration of course starting form four and going up to seven years which starts from senior secondary level and goes up to PhD level.

There are several reasons responsible for the need and growth of integrated programmes and the most important one being the conventional courses becoming obsolete. The existing system has flaws like in the conventional system students are passive learners, no exposure to critical thinking, no active learning and difficulty in applying their knowledge to society. The industry has also been complaining that the graduates coming out of the existing education system are non- employable, thus the integrated programmes is an answer to that as they are designed in order to prepare industry ready individuals. It has also been designed to meet the aspirations of young students to become professionals, change agents and societal leaders.

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has come up with its guidelines for institutions starting integrated course and has made it clear that the courses should make students industry ready. As per the guidelines the objective of starting these courses should be first, to create technologists and engineers from all branches ready with management skills. Second, to ensure that the graduating students are ‘industry ready’ with managerial skills and third, to inspire students to start and run own ventures in their basic field of study with good business skills and knowledge.

Experts are also of the view that those students who have research as the goal of their career they should go for the integrated courses as it will save their time on education without losing out on content.

There is also an element to it as students often get confused between dual degrees and integrated programmes as both the terms are often used interchangeably. A joint or dual degree program is an outcome to an integrated course of study. An integrated study programme comprises of a curriculum that is jointly designed by two or more higher education institutions. The institution should inform the students about various provisions of integrated programmes and they should also come up with awareness programme to popularise the new system of education and it should not be seen as something replacing the existing system completely as it has its own pros and cons.    

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