Pvt univs go faculty-shopping abroad

Institutes Holding Recruitment Weeks; Syria To Singapore, HK To Hungary On Radar

- Hemali Chhapia

Mumbai: For long, only India’s premier institutes flew out to shop for faculty members. The IITs and the IIMs through their deep alumni networks attracted many teachers from campuses around the world and marshalled them to Indian campuses. Now, however, private Indian universities too have joined the bandwagon. They are holding recruitment weeks around the world looking for professors, full-time, visiting or in an advisory role.

The hunt often begins with an intense desire to bring back true-blue international faculty, the one that has circulated several campuses and is ready for a sunny “Indian chapter”. Meant to extend the universities’ boundaries of knowing, working and researching, international faculty also spearhead internationalisation for the campus.

The US and the UK are big on everyone’s radar, but the search extends beyond too.