UK wants to push ahead ties with India in education: Sibal

H S Rao
London, Jan 15 (PTI) UK wants to "push forward" its
relationship with India in the education sector and British
universities are increasingly interested in coming to the
country to collaborate like "never before", Minister for Human
Resource Development of India Kapil Sibal has said.

After an extensive visit to the University of Surrey and
the Imperial College of London, Sibal, on a visit here, told
newsmen: "in both institutions we felt these institutions are
ready to collaborate with us".
"They (the institutions) are exceptionally serious about
coming to India in a very substantive way," he told newsmen.
He said the Imperial College had some substantial
projects to offer and "they did tell me in confidence about
these projects".
"The feeling I got was that UK wants to push forward this
relationship with India in the education sector and UK
universities are ready to come to India, perhaps
incrementally," he said, describing his discussions with Lord
Peter Mandelson, Britain's Secretary of State for Business,
Innovation and Skills, as "very very fruitful".
"Certainly they want to collaborate with us like never
before," Sibal said.
Sibal said the MoUs signed between British Universities
and IIT Ropar and the Institute of Socio Economic Research,
spells out a way for collaboration.
"It may be twinning arrangement, joint Degree and down
the road, have campuses. I myself told them it is better to
have Joint Ventures," he said. (MORE) PTI HSR
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