Higher education continues to grow for national goals and priorities: Prez Kovind

New Delhi, April 8: Felicitating higher education, National Institutional Ranking Framework or NIRF India Rankings 2019 has been announced. President Ramnath Kovind announced the NIRF Rankings for Indian educational institutes at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi today. President while addressing the function said that, as India’s higher education continues to grow it should grow for the national goal and Priorities. For India to emerge as a global innovation hub, the youth of our country, especially in higher education institutions need to play a crucial role to create a sustainable innovation ecosystem. Hence, ideally, all HEIs should have a comprehensive and functional mechanism to convert research into innovations.

Overall Universities, Engineering, Colleges, Management, Pharmacy, Medical, Architecture, and Law. The parameters on which the NIRF 2019 is based are - Teaching, Learning and Resources, Research and Professional Practices, Graduation Outcomes, Outreach and Inclusivity, and Perception. According to officials, more than 4000 institutes had submitted their data for NIRF ranking this year.

Top 10 Engineering Institutions

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad

Anna University, Chennai

National Institute of Technology, Thiruchirappalli

Here are the top 10 Indian universities according to NIRF 2019:

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Calcutta University, Kolkata

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Anna University, Chennai

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal

Savitribai Phule Pune University

President pointed out low enrolment of girls in higher education system particularly in the esteemed institutions this is a paradox as girls tend to do best in school examinations. But when given a chance female candidate dominates the topper list.

In his address to the function, he said that qualities and excellence are multidimensional they need to be understood in the context of goals and objectives. Parameters of qualities are invariably approved qualities of infrastructure, faculty, student inputs, curriculum and pedagogy, graduation outcome and research. Several of these parameters are also accessed in quantitative terms. However, some of them are highly subjective and therefore difficult to measure.

He further said about a ranking system, this was a challenge for the Department of higher education, Ministry of Human resource development took up in right earnest in 2015, when it created National Institution ranking framework.

Because of the process followed by a ranking system, the government can get an idea about the gap and makes appropriate interventions. He was happy to announce besides overall ranking category specific ranking have been declared. He praised the ranking system which fosters healthy competitions among institutions as all institution competing for talent.

Innovation is about taking inventions to the marketplace by translating scientific knowledge into products, services and offerings for economic growth and social development. Even, Prime Minister of India has declared decade 2010-20 as the ‘Decade of Innovation’, to unleash the creative potential of every Indian. India has already been improving on the global stage in terms of Innovation ranking from 86th place, 5 years ago, to 57th place this year.

This ecosystem will encourage, inspire and nurture young students by exposing them to new ideas and processes resulting in innovative activities in their formative years.

ARIIA ranking will certainly inspire Indian institutions to reorient their mindset and build ecosystems to encourage high-quality research, innovation and entrepreneurship. More than quantity, ARIIA will focus on the quality of innovations and will try to measure the real impact created by these innovations nationally and internationally. Moreover, ARIIA will set tone and direction for institutions for future development for making them globally competitive and in the forefront of innovation.