IIT-Madras professors go on road shows to woo students
IIT-Madras faculty are going on road shows across the country to market the institute's research programmes. The initiative is being taken this year to woo the brightest minds in other leading higher educational institutions.
Three or four faculty members from each department have been visiting other centrally-funded institutions like the NationalInstitutes of Technology, state-funded institutions and private self-financing colleges and universities as well. "We want to increase the quality and quantity of our PhD intake," said IIT-Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthi.
The institutions are chosen based on student intake in the past. Around 10 visits were planned, and the interactions will end by October 20, before the PhD application deadline. The institute enrolls research scholars twice a year - once in June and another in November or December. Ramamurthi said that the faculty members may go on a similar round of visits to institutions next April, ahead of the June intake.
The faculty in groups of three or four have been giving presentations on the teaching and research capabilities of the various departments, and talking about the kind of expertise IIT-Madras has to offer, fundingpatterns and other opportunities for higher education.
IIT-Madras has come up with several initiatives to draw more research applications with better quality this year. Research scholars have been given the option of undertaking inter-disciplinary research spanning more than one department. The initiatives are taken to increase the number of PhDs passing out from the IITs from the current 3,000 to 10,000 a year, as per the Kakodkar Committee's recommendations.
Three or four faculty members from each department have been visiting other centrally-funded institutions like the NationalInstitutes of Technology, state-funded institutions and private self-financing colleges and universities as well. "We want to increase the quality and quantity of our PhD intake," said IIT-Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthi.
The institutions are chosen based on student intake in the past. Around 10 visits were planned, and the interactions will end by October 20, before the PhD application deadline. The institute enrolls research scholars twice a year - once in June and another in November or December. Ramamurthi said that the faculty members may go on a similar round of visits to institutions next April, ahead of the June intake.
The faculty in groups of three or four have been giving presentations on the teaching and research capabilities of the various departments, and talking about the kind of expertise IIT-Madras has to offer, fundingpatterns and other opportunities for higher education.
IIT-Madras has come up with several initiatives to draw more research applications with better quality this year. Research scholars have been given the option of undertaking inter-disciplinary research spanning more than one department. The initiatives are taken to increase the number of PhDs passing out from the IITs from the current 3,000 to 10,000 a year, as per the Kakodkar Committee's recommendations.
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