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IITs to
enrol foreign students, offer medical courses
Friday, September 10, 2010 10:00:17 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs) will induct
foreigners as students and faculty and will also conduct medical
courses, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal announced
Friday.
Talking to reporters after a nearly three-hour meeting with the
council of IITs, Sibal said the major decisions were taken to
bring IITs at par with international institutes and to make them
global in every sense.
"It was agreed that the IITs will have foreign students as well as
faculty," Sibal said.
Appointment of foreign faculty could also give a boost to IITs'
plan to enrol foreign students.
The foreign students, whose strength will be capped at 25 percent,
will be enrolled in the post-graduate course while foreigners
would account for a maximum of 10 percent of the faculty.
"The number of foreign students will be in addition to the Indian
students already there," he said.
The minister said that medicine and medical research courses will
be added to the field of IITs.
He said that as the field of medicine involves a large number of
engineering techniques, the need for having medicine course at
IITs was felt.
"Appropriate amendment in the IIT Act may be considered to enable
IITs to offer courses in medicine with the approval from the
Medical Council of India," Sibal said.
The MCI approval will be needed for awarding medical degrees, but
it will not be required for research in allied fields.
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