Institutions of Eminence: Why govt has not yet selected 14 out of 20 IOEs

Institutions of Eminence: Why govt has not yet selected 14 out of 20 IOEs The government is in a quandary because the body it tasked with picking deserving universities has done more than it was asked to

Education News: The Government of India launched the Institutions of Eminence (IoE) initiative in 2017. It sought to pick 20 IOEs – 10 public and 10 private universities – to break into the ranks of the top 500 institutions worldwide.

In July 2018, based on the Empowered Experts Committee (EEC) recommendations, the government selected six IOEs (three public and three private): IISc Bengaluru IIT Bombay IIT Delhi BITS Pilani Manipal Academy of Higher Education Jio Institute In the process, the government left out five public universities also recommended by the EEC: IITs Kharagpur and Madras, Delhi University, Jadavpur University and Anna University.

In the first week of December 2018, the EEC forwarded the names of 19 institutions for consideration of eminence status to the University Grants Commission (UGC). At the time, the government and the EEC reportedly differed over the number of institutions to be considered ’eminent’. The EEC wanted all of its 30 recommendations to go through whereas the government preferred sticking to...read more

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