A delegation comprising 22 UK Universities education leaders from top universities in the United Kingdom is in India for providing a qualitative boost to the courses in Arts, Music, Literature, Design, Fashion, Science and Architecture by facilitating partnerships between UK and Indian universities.
The main focus of the delegation is to improve the access of these courses to a wide range of students in India by upgrading the existing infrastructure related to these fields, which is a major challenge. As part of this educational delegation visit from the UK, discussions on offering dual degrees, joint courses and twinning degrees will also take place.
The delegation has announced several scholarships for English teachers from India so as to enable them to complete Masters in English from universities in the UK. Emphasis would be laid on teaching the language through the use of educational technologies. The focus will also be on discussing migration, mobility partnerships, mutual recognition of higher education qualifications and more initiatives for the internationalisation of higher education.
Ms Barbara Wickham OBE, director India, British Council, stated that this was the largest-ever delegation of higher education from the top UK universities that visited India. The delegation had major conversations with the Education Ministry officials and various apex bodies.Â
She further added that the delegation is in India with a focus to initiate transnational education that includes partnerships and collaboration opportunities with the Indian universities in sync with the regulations coming out of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and National Education Policy 2020.
Dr. Balvinder Shukla, vice chancellor, Amity University (UP) stated that The Amity university is exploring with various UK Universities to collaborate for joint degree programmes, dual degree programmes and twinning programmes in the area of Management, Engineering Technology, Life Sciences, Bio Technology and Science & Technology. The university collaborates with UK Universities for research, student exchange programmes and Post-Doctoral research programmes as well and may start offering programmes from this academic year.
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