The Institution’s Innovation Council awards are out, and Shoolini University is the only IIC in Himachal Pradesh to gain a full 4-star rating. The Union Ministry of Education released the rankings today.
The Institution’s Innovation Council awards are out, and Shoolini University is the only IIC in Himachal Pradesh to gain a full 4-star rating. The Union Ministry of Education released the rankings today.
The Ministry of Education, Government of India, has established an ‘Innovation cell’ with the purpose to systematically foster the culture of Innovation in all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the country.
With this, Shooini University has become the only university in Himachal to secure the top rank, leaving all other private universities of the state behind. Shoolini Innovation Council is a student-run organisation with the primary mandate to encourage, inspire and nurture young students. Since its inception in 2019, IIC Shoolini has been progressing by leaps and bounds and now, it has reached the top. IIC Shoolini has met most of the elite standards set by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. This has been possible with the combined and dedicated efforts of the IIC Shoolini team and their vision to establish a sense of entrepreneurship among students.
The purpose of the Innovation Cell at Shoolini is to encourage and help students in this journey of entrepreneurship and culture of innovation.
Dr Kamal Kant Vashisht, Director e-learning and IIC Convenor, Shoolini University, said IIC Shoolini had received one-star rating in the year 2018-19 and has now achieved 4 stars (2019-2020).
He said IIC mainly focuses on innovation-inspired entrepreneurship, collaborative leadership, research and development in order to support young minds to work with new ideas in their formative years.
Chancellor Prof PK Khosla said it was a matter of immense pride that Shoolini University was among 70 universities in the country to have received four-star rankings and among only 10 private universities who had scored the four-star rankings among all private universities in the North West region.
Prof Atul Khosla, Vice-chancellor, Shoolini University, congratulated the entire IIC team and said it “again proves that Shoolini is the best university in Himachal Pradesh and one of the few from India with full four stars”.