UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar has met Sarah Storey, Deputy High Commissioner of Australia, and her colleagues to debate collaboration between Indian and Australian universities, in keeping with officers. The assembly emphasised on views to advertise efficient collaboration between the 2 nations contemplating the truth that training has been recognised as one of many precedence sectors for cooperation by the management of India and Australia.
“Kumar apprised the Australian side about the various progressive initiatives taken by the University Grants Commission(UGC) and the Government of India for internationalisation of the Indian higher education system, as envisaged in the National Education Policy, 2020. He also shared the key features of the UGC Regulations on Academic Collaboration between Indian and Foreign Higher Educational Institutions to offer Twinning, Joint and Dual Degree Programmes,” the UGC stated in an announcement.
The Australian counterpart appreciated the ushering in of the much-awaited UGC rules on tutorial collaboration, and expressed that they’d encourage the Australian increased instructional establishments to collaborate with the Indian HEIs beneath the ambit of those rules.
“The charge’ d’affaires, Australian High Commission, hoped that the Task-Force on Education Qualification Recognition would strengthen mobility of students. The UGC chairman further shared that a committee, constituted by the UGC, has been working on various modalities for recognition of foreign qualifications in India,” it added.
The Australian facet additionally expressed its curiosity within the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) in Gujarat. Jagadesh Kumar assured the Australian facet of the assist and steering of the UGC to facilitate Australian universities to arrange their campuses and supply programs in various areas like Financial Management, FinTech, Science and Technology, Engineering and Mathematics within the GIFT City.
“Kumar also shared that UGC would bring out a set of enabling regulations so as to allow top-ranked foreign HEIs to open their campuses in India.The Australian side suggested that a self-regulatory framework for foreign HEIs might be developed for promoting their establishment and operations in India,” the assertion stated.
With inputs from PTI.
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