Bratya Basu, Education minister, West Bengal, said that the federal government was in favour of international increased academic institutes with good tutorial status establishing their bases within the state however ‘the ball is in the Centre’s courtroom’.
He interacted with representatives of six increased academic institutes from the United Kingdom (UK), which have expressed curiosity to arrange their bases within the state. “Through this roundtable, I invite UK institutes to partner with us to accelerate two-way mobility of faculty and students, dual programmes, setting up campuses in West Bengal and enhance our joint research in areas of mutual interest,” the minister mentioned.
Responding to a query, Basu later said that “as far as setting up bases of reputed UK higher educational institutes in the city and elsewhere is concerned, the ball is in the Centre’s court. If the Union government gives its nod, the state can facilitate the process by extending all help as partner”.
“West Bengal is an “important hub for education” and homes plenty of institutes of nationwide significance for teachers in addition to analysis. This 12 months’s Bengal Global Business Summit featured training as a key sector for employment technology and creation of worldwide high quality analysis institutes in order that Bengal can operate as a hub for all the east, north-east and ASEAN international locations,” the minister mentioned.
He identified that 22 MoUs have been signed between the state-run and personal universities in Bengal within the enterprise summit on numerous topics starting from tutorial exchanges to analysis.
Representatives from universities of East London, Kent and Leeds, Royal Holloway College have been amongst these current on the roundtable organised by the British Council.
Officials from two our bodies similar to Universities UK International and Department for International Trade have been additionally a part of the delegation that met senior state officers, coverage makers and representatives of high universities. Officials from IIEST Shibpur, IISER Kolkata, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta University, Jadavpur University and several other different institutes participated within the occasion.
With inputs from PTI.
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