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03/12/23 08:46 AM IST

Centre approves fourth phase roll-out of GIAN scheme

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  • Eight years after its inception, past its brief discontinuation during the COVID period, the Ministry of Education is gearing up to restart the fourth phase of the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN).
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  • Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education was launched in 2015. It is a program of Ministry of Human Resource and Development.
  • GIAN aims at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs to engage with the institutes of higher education in India to augment the country’s existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reforms, and further strengthen India’s scientific and technological capabilities.
  • The Central government has spent at least ₹126 crore in payment to support foreign faculty’s travel and honorarium since the inception of GIAN.
  • Each foreign faculty member is paid a lavish sum of $8000 (~ ₹7 lakh) for a week of teaching and $12,000 (~ ₹12 lakh) for conducting a two-week course.
  • As many as 1,073 academicians have taught the one week course, while 553 experts have held two-week courses.
  • Since the beginning of the scheme in 2015-16, 1,612 foreign faculty members have visited the country to deliver courses from 59 countries. After two years of COVID lull, phase four applications for GIAN began only in July 2023.
  • As many as 692 (39%) of 1,772 courses were delivered in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campuses, while the second largest cohort of lectures, 436 (24.6%), took place in the National Institute of Technology (NITs).
  • As compared to Central institutes, fewer courses took place in State Universities — 241 (10.8%) of all courses.
  • The rest was conducted at the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), Indian Institute of Sciences (IISC), Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), management institutes, Central universities and All India Council of Technical Education’s engineering colleges.
  • Up to 41.4% (668) of academicians who visited India belonged to the U.S.
  • The rest consisted of experts from the U.K. (143), Germany (93), Canada (89), France (56), Italy (58), Nordic countries (47), China, Japan and Taiwan (63), ASEAN countries (42) and other countries (259). Up to 72,000 Indian students directly benefitted.
  • MoE is also planning to make the repository of GIAN lectures available to universities across India through an online consortium to be used as a teaching and assessment tool.
  • These lectures can be accessed with a specific log in ID and password for students and teachers across multiple universities under the new phase four proposal.
Source- The Hindu

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