Im in favour of centre funding top Nlus.We should long fr the institute of national importance tag,it will solve many probs,if any.List of univs in IoE are all science,engg, related but law university like JGLS can't stand to compare with those six.let us demand fr a 'non- science' IoE list where participating institutes offer courses in arts,humanity,law,lit etc.

Not really true about technical institutes as well. ICT Mumbai was declined, as were institutes like TIFR. They claim that the latter come under specialised institutes. Wonder how IISc and IITs are not specialist institutes, though.

High time they end their internal agitations first. Also lol at 10 NLUs deserving INI status. Top 5 deserve it at best. Can't be pretending all of them deserve it.

Yes, several good places got overlooked. I don't recall any of them engaging in such a robust publicity campaign or calling their faculty the very best in the country with such gusto though. That's vintage JGLS for you.

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Indian intelligence infiltrated IS ring to track, arrest Afghan suicide bomber sent to hit Delhi

Dumb comment. Please name one prof at JGLS who has published in a predatory journal.

"The EEC found teaching and research quality of the other applicants too low to be accorded the IoE status." - Enough said! ;)

So just because other good institutions were given a miss, that automatically means that every institution that had been given a miss is a good institution by association? Such logical jump, much wow! Did you learn it for LSAT?

You have people teaching there who used to try to teach Jurisprudence via Pyaar ka Punchnama at their earlier colleges. Nothing more needs to be said. The only criterion of getting recruited at JGLS is a foreign degree. While that gets them some good people, the place has its share of idiots too.

I can actually name at least Assistant Professors there who has done that. But I doubt Kian will allow that.

Ok, so how about you just name the journal and not the faculty member? We can then run a search on the Jindal website and find out if you are lying or not??

What makes you think all the teachers reveal their entire publication list on the university website? Because I happen to know several who don't, across all universities.
P.s. I'm not the person who made that claim. I don't even know whether that's true. So many guests are causing confusion. :D

And, therefore, you are a tool... QED.

Are you from JGLS? I am amazed at your profound ability to use terms like QED, even if you don't appear to be aware of its proper usage.

@All Jindalites taking offence at the developments and/or comments herein: As one of my favourite teachers at law school tended to say, PR kiya toh darna kya?

Wow, what a cringeworthy joke! Pity the law school and the professor you refer to. It's totally clear now that you are a troll writing complete lies. Not worth wasting time on you.

@JGLS: Touchy, touchy! Actually, that comment was my first one on this thread. You probably got me confused with some of the earlier commentators. I do not happen to have any animosity towards your institution, actually, assuming you are from JGLS. In fact, I believe that among the applicant institutes, yours was probably ticking all the right boxes to get selected. So, maybe channel your anger better next time?
Incidentally, the professor whom you are taking 'pity' at happens to be one of brightest legal minds that country has to offer, at least in the field of IP, Dr. Shamnad Basheer. Maybe you have come across his name somewhere. Shows even intelligent people are not prohibited from cracking the occasional PJ. However, I'm sure he can soldier on regardless of your profound sense of hostility. And the law school happens to be a small one, established in a remote corner of Karnataka, occasionally considered the first of its kind by some. So, unclench a bit, maybe?

So why are you? Wasting time on him, I mean. Don't you have the next fake news to give to the media, like how JGLS has had the best placement of 2018 in Asia? One wonders how you folks can still appear to defend your institution in public, but not protest when it issues blatant lies. Clearly, the 40 lakhs you spend over 5 years isn't helping to inculcate a sense of justice or fairness in you.

they do offer regular courses, but pay is lower than faculty and u get promoted to faculty based on performance.

You are just copy pasting the same thing in multiple threads. Everybody knows JGLS is bigger, that doesn't mean it's better. As for your 'strong' departments, it's the quality of the graduates that determines the strength of the department, not anything else. You are yet to prove that so far. And JGLS participated in the exercise because it had 1 crore of petty cash to throw away. That's nothing to brag about. Had it won, then you would have been justified to say some of this. And if the institute is so big and content that it doesn't need PR, then why does it indulge in the same so aggressively at the drop of a hat including planting false news in media about its placements? I see you have avoided answering that question rather adroitly.

The government is being criticized because there are several good institutions in India that are capable of becoming world class, but are being prevented from reaching their potential because UGC and CSIR are bureaucratic dinosaurs with a God complex, and they believe in quantity over quality.

For example, a 3 year engineering degree from a prestigious UK University is not recognised in India, but a 4 year degree from a no-name college, producing unemployble morons is. They stop universities and institutions from changing their syllabus or tailoring it because of teh mistaken belief that quality will suffer. They are apparently unaware of market economics which will ensure that bad colleges will fail (see the fall of engineering courses in spite of it being perhaps the most exciting field today).

Further evidence:

Delhi University has the potential for excellence. It had tried to reform its courses (they had attempted to introduce a 4-year UG degree based on the US pattern), but were made to reverse their decision by the UGC.

ISB is not recognised by the UGC because it offers a 1 year MBA, in spite of it reaching the top of the Financial Times ranking. ISB chose to retain its autonomy rather than now to the UGC, and are proudly unrecognised. However, should an ISB graduate ever wish to apply for a government job requiring an MBA or equivalent qualification, they will not be eligible to do so.

Similarly, faculty positions require at least a master's level qualification, which means, for example, entry-level professors should have completed a 2-year LLM to qualify for the NET. This disallows those who may have completed an LLM from Harvard.

Thus, many good institutions cannot become a great institution because they are forced to comply with:

- the syllabus, which is designed by the UGC.
- the faculty qualifications, which are based on conditions laid out by the UGC.
- the time to complete the degree, which is defined by the UGC.

This prevents multi-disciplinary learning, penalises precocious students who would like to complete multiple credits quickly, and prevents skilled graduates with foreign degrees from contributing to Indian academia.

Rewarding good institutions would allow them to compete globally, make their graduates more employable, and restore the prestige of these institutions and re-energise the cities they are located in.

We all know that Mr Ambani is very ambitious, and if he indeed sets his goals to creating a world-class university, it will be definitely an institution of excellence. The Ambani school is a testament to this. That said, the Jio institute does not exist. Let it be evaluated once it stands, and then be given the honour of being designated so. Meanwhile there are many others who can benefit from this designation.

It is not difficult to believe that clearly preferential treatment is being given to Jio institute, and criticism is definitely deserved.

@Hee Haw: Agree with everything you said, barring the point about a Harvard LL.M. UGC now recognises one year LLM including the ones from abroad and those people are allowed to appear for NET too like the others having Indian LLM. Rest what you said is true enough.

Thanks for pointing this out. It seems non-recognition holds true only for a non-LLM Master's degree that last for less than 2 years.

I wish I could correct my comment.

The problem is most law schools are cash starved. And neither QS ranking nor NIRF solves that. IOE status would have done that.

Rahul isn't a miracle worker. Nor is he the end-word in the administration. It is highly unlikely that NLSIU, where there has been no recruitment of teachers in over a decade, can suddenly get into QS rankings regardless of the good student performance there. A more practical plan would be one of at least 3 years, if not 5. Removal of the current VC and replacing him with someone better, younger, and with more vision would go a long way to achieve that goal, by the way.

Jio Law school, mumbai,