External Peer Review
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur At a Glance (July, 2008 – June, 2013) External Peer Review May 19-20, 2014 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur At a Glance (July, 2008 – June, 2013) EXTERNAL PEER REVIEW May 19-20, 2014 1 PREAMBLE The Council of IITs in its 46th meeting on January 7th, 2013 decided that IITs would undertake external peer review of their functioning. Accordingly, MHRD has sent terms of references to be filled up by all IITs which will form the basis for carrying out external peer review for every IIT. The terms of reference includes i) General Considerations, ii) Institute’s Performance based on Specific Indicators, and iii) Institutional Grid for Assessment. The General Considerations include progress in relation to previous projections, plans for the future, and measures adopted towards them. There are nine Specific Indicators. These are as follows: i) curriculum and course offered, ii) teaching environment, iii) research and development, iv) R&D environment, v) external stakeholder engagement for industry collaboration, contribution to national development goals/priorities, social responsibility, and alumni engagement, vi) vision for the future, viii) governance and financial resources for management, financial resource management, transparency, and infrastructure, viii) stakeholders survey, and ix) diversity. IIT Kharagpur has prepared this document following the guidelines given in the terms of reference of MHRD by fulfilling all the above-mentioned criteria. The data presented in this document are collected from all departments/centres/schools and alsofrom all the centralized units of IIT Kharagpur. Efforts have been made to present the data in the most accurate form. The external peer review also includes specific reports for individual departments/centres/ schools available in a separate booklet, and a detailed presentation highlighting the details of IIT Khargapur, its uniqueness, an analysis of the performancevariables of IIT Khargpur with respect to its peers in India and also in the world, and the roadmap ahead.
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