Patna, July 7: Quality will be the key for selecting faculty members of the upcoming Nalanda International University.

The institution, being a global centre of excellence, will have teachers from across the world, including India.

“The university authorities will trot the world in search of the best brains but will not leave out Indian aspirants who are the best in the business. What will not be compromised at any cost is the quality of the faculty,” said Sugata Bose, a member of the governing body of the upcoming institution.

The historian dispelled fears that good faculty members were hard to come by in Bihar.

“The institution coming up on the ruins of the ancient seat of learning has evoked widespread interest across the world. The world, at this stage of history, is on the lookout for centres of excellence in research and academics to meet new challenges,” said Bose, the Gardinder Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University.

He said the “search committee” comprising the governing board members would endeavour to make the Nalanda university an institution of truly international standards. “Obviously, Indians committed to giving their best to achieve the institution’s objectives will be preferred,” he said.

To begin with, Bose said, the university would roll out courses on history and environment and ecology.

“The study in environment and ecology is the need of the hour, as large parts of the world stand struck with natural calamities, including flood, drought and earthquake. The school of environment and ecology will focus on research in such disasters and the way out,” he said.

Bose said that in the context of Bihar too, the study in environment and ecology was crucial as floods and droughts had been a recurring phenomenon here.

The historian visited the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library with which the university will tie up for digital exchange of texts, books and manuscripts available in Persian and Arabic scripts.