To bring back talent to India and formulate strategies that will help tide over huge faculty crunch across institutes in the country, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, are now collaborating to work on projects that will have an impact on policy decisions. An “India Centre for Sustainable Growth and Talent Development” has been started in this context. A formal launch of the centre is due in October 2011.
The centre will focus on multiple aspects including education and training programmes and development of dual degree programmes and short courses. A key focus will be management of higher education. Exchange of faculty and students between the two institutes will also be an integral activity. “There is a major shortage of qualified faculty across colleges and universities in India. There’s also a huge Indian talent pool abroad and we need to develop strategies to tap them. The centre will focus on research projects to retain talent and bring students and faculty back. It will be important for manpower planning,” said SK Bhowmik, dean, School of Management and Labour Studies, TISS.
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