UGC allows IoEs to establish campuses outside India
The institutes will have to get no-objection certificates from MEA, MHA to set up campuses abroad
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
11.01.2021
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has allowed Institutions of Eminence (IoEs) to set up off-shore campuses as part of the UGC (Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities) (Amendments) Regulation 2021. The institutes will now be able to establish campuses outside India.
The institutes will have to receive noobjection certificates from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to set up campuses abroad. The institutes will have to enrol a minimum of five hundred students on its rolls under the regular classroom, offer atleast five PG programmes and research programmes to be able to set up the offshore campuses.
“The Institutions of Eminence deemed to be universities shall submit their application to the ministry by way of an affidavit in the prescribed proforma along with the Detailed Project Report (DPR) containing its 10-year strategic vision plan and a fiveyear rolling implementation plan viz. academic plan, faculty recruitment plan, student admission plan, research plan, infrastructure development plan, financial plan, administrative plan and governance plan,” read the official statement by UGC.
The amendments permit the IOEs to start new off-campus centres, with a maximum of three in five years and not more than one in an academic year.
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