Karnataka Minister of Higher Education C N Ashwath Narayan has invited United Kingdom’s Edinburgh University to open its campus in Bengaluru. The Minister, throughout his go to to the 450-year-old college positioned in Scotland, held discussions with the highest officers of the varsity and put forth this provide, the Minister’s workplace stated in an announcement.
According to an official assertion, Edinburgh University officers responded positively to the proposal and added that Narayan invited them to attend the silver jubilee celebration of the Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS-22) scheduled for November.
“The National Education Policy (NEP 2020) which is being implemented in Karnataka paves way for internationalisation of education. In addition, Edinburgh University is renowned for multi-disciplinary education which is also the core of NEP. These factors favour Edinburgh University to set up its campus in Bengaluru,” he stated.
Also, the Minister held consultations pertaining to collaborations in larger training in addition to deliberating on the introduction of ‘Twinning Courses’. He visited the Bayes Centre, which is an incubation and a novel mannequin of a multi-disciplinary training centre on the Edinburgh University campus, and in addition witnessed the robotic lab, information science, and AI centres housed there.
With inputs from PTI.
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