Andhra Government inviting Summer Fellows 2017
By Governnemt of Andhra Pradesh
March 28, 2017
In an effort to improve the quality of education in the state, the government of Andhra Pradesh has taken major step towards various initiatives in the fields of faculty development, R&D and innovation, employability and entrepreneurship, e-learning, smart campuses, international rankings, CSR funding for higher education etc. to strengthen existing state universities.
rnIn order to provide the required boost to these initiatives, the department of higher education has sought help of 18 highly qualified students from major universities in India and across the globe.
rnYoung scholars from the IITs, BITS-Pilani, Columbia University, ISB, National University of Singapore, St. Stephen’s and others from both under-graduate, post-graduate levels and conducting research will be engaged by the State for the next couple of months. They will go round the public universities looking into the present-day conditions and how to surpass the current standards, scale up skills, initiate entrepreneurship abilities, strengthen research outputs, etc.
rnThe Government aims to transform Andhra Pradesh into a global knowledge and education hub by (i) strengthening existing state universities, (ii) establishing new premier national universities and (iii) inviting top national private universities to establish their campuses in the state.
rn“We want to take the reforms in the higher education to the next level. We need to know which universities are performing and how to progress on international collaborations so as to supplant our efforts. We are already collaborating with several foreign varsities and even sent our VCs abroad,” stated Higher Education Principal Secretary Sumita Dawra.
rnThe idea has been adopted from the Economic Development Board of the Finance Department which had conducted similar successful summer fellowships programme last year. For higher education, more than 300 had applied including working professionals and 90 were shortlisted with the help of essays on their vision on how to go about in their preferred area of work.
rnEach Fellow would be paid the an allowance of Rs.70,000 for performance rated ‘satisfactory’, Rs.80, 000 for performance rated ‘good’ and Rs. 1 lac for performance rated ‘Outstanding’ for the entire duration of the fellowship.
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