Batting for academic collaboration between universities across the globe, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday said that the students and teachers around the world could be immensely benefitted from tie-up.
Badal, interacting with the delegation of one of the largest universities of the United Kingdom — Nottingham Trent University, said that with the world swiftly emerging as a global village, there was a need for acquainting the students about the emerging fields in the education.
He said that in such a scenario, the academic collaboration between the universities, which were temples of education, of the different countries could do wonders in spreading the light of knowledge in every nook and corner of the world besides helping in overall development of the students.
Emphasising the need for frequent student and faculty exchange program between the universities of State and Nottingham Trent University, Badal said that it would be very beneficial for the students of the State.
Badal said that universities of State could initiate measures to collaborate with the Nottingham Trent University for starting this student
and faculty exchange program, in which the State Government would provide fulsome support and cooperation to them.
He also sought the cooperation of visiting delegation for imparting training to students in agriculture, biosciences, animal husbandry especially in developing disease resistant varieties of animal breed and other fields, where this University has a strong presence.
He also laid thrust on imparting vocational education to the students through bilateral tie-up with the twin motive of stamping out unemployment on one hand and providing a pool of skilled manpower to cope up with the need of local industry on the other.
Badal asked the Guru Nanak Dev University Vice Chancellor and Punjabi University Dean, who were present on the occasion, to finalise the modalities of academic collaboration with the visiting delegation.
During the meeting, Nottingham Trent University Vice Chancellor Prof Edward Pek and Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Hely apprised the Chief Minister that the university was eager to collaborate with Punjab in the field of academics.
Welcoming the proposal mooted by CM regarding student and faculty exchange program, they said that
students and teachers from both the sides would be mutually benefitted from this initiative.