The government has issued guidelines for the so-called Institutions of Eminence to foray overseas through offshore centres and full-fledged campuses in a push to put India on the global education map.
Each of these 20 higher education institutes has been allowed to open up to three offshore centres in the next five years. They will, however, require approval from as many as three ministries-education, home and external affairs-before they can venture out. Also, while an institute can start offshore operations with 500 students and five post-graduate programmes, as well as research activity, it needs to ensure that these operations eventually grow to become a full-fledged multi-disciplinary teaching and research campus with at least 3,000 students, and 300 faculty members within 10 years. Institutions of Eminence. shall be permitted to set up new off-campus centres-maximum of three in five years and not more than one in one academic year-by following the procedures, according to the revised rules of the education ministry, a copy of which has been reviewed by Mint. They will also need to submit a detailed project report, a 10-year vision plan and five-year rolling implementation plan.
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