With the increase in demand for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, most countries are demanding the establishment of IITs in their home countries for quality education and development. Look what the Indian Ministry of Education has to say.
In a major development, a committee set up by the Centre for the global expansion of IITs has identified the UK, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Malaysia, and Thailand as prospective locations for offshore campuses. The institute would bear the name of the Indian Emblem of the International Institute of Technology.
These seven countries ranked high on several key parameters, according to a report submitted to the Ministry of Education by the 17-member committee, led by IIT Council standing committee chairperson Dr. K Radhakrishnan.
“The survey shows that most of the universities in the nations targeted initially have undergraduate programs in the conventional discipline. From the feedback shared by the ambassadors of the identified host nations, the most frequently mentioned disciplines are related to computer science or Information Technology, data sciences, AI, machine learning or robotics, electrical, electronics, mining, metallurgy, petroleum and energy,” the report stated.
“Our mission has made multiple requests for a meeting between the universities and the IIT committee. It has further requested for a detailed concept note and nodal contact point for taking forward this proposal,” stated the report.
So far, the discussions were largely about individual IITs. The committee has, for the first time, proposed a model under which a chain of institutions would be set up under the Indian International Institute of Technology brand name with domestic IITs as mentors.
