London: India and the UK will ink key
deals in higher education here tomorrow in a bid to boost
bilateral relations.
Five Memorandums of Understanding will be signed in
the presence of India's Human Resource Development Minister
Kapil Sibal and Lord Peter Mandelson, Britain's Secretary of
State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
It will follow a roundtable conference with 17
vice-chancellors or senior representatives of British
Universities, including the famous Cambridge.
The co-operation will include a tie-up with Imperial
College, a science-based establishment and the world's 5th
ranked university. It is already helping to set up an Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) at Ropar.
India has undertaken an ambition plan to expand the
number of universities and the UK, which known for its
post-graduate studies, is actively involved in it.
In the recent past a large number of delegation from
British Universities have been visiting India in this
connection.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 22:15