June 13, 2008

In Brief

EXPANSION IN INDIA: In what has come as a shock to the board of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology, the Indian government has directed it to open six new institutes this year instead of the scheduled three, even as the seven existing institutes face faculty shortages of 20 percent to 30 percent. The six new institutes have no premises or faculties of their own, and most of them are expected to function temporarily out of the seven existing institutions, one local newspaper reported.

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