The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is going to conduct road shows in various Ivy league universities across the United States from February 2017 to get the faculty to bring world-class quality to its teaching methods.
“A delegation of deans and heads of different departments will go to Ivy league institutes in the east coast, and to institutes in other US cities, to hire graduating students as faculty members in IIT-D,” said an IIT official. The delegation also plans to interview a few PhD candidates over Skype and then travel to meet them personally. They have been coordinating with various institutions, and getting information about scholars who are finishing their academic work. Post the relaxation of norms by the Government in recruitment of the foreign faculty in IITs, they can work as contractual employees for five years in India’s IITs. The contract is renewable and though they are not offered permanent positions, they get paid at par with faculty members in India.