The OP Jindal Global University (JGU), a non-profit university recognised by the University Grants Commission, has recently announced the Jindal-Africa scholarship programme as part of its commitment towards fostering global cooperation and development with Africa.
Already students from Kenya, South Africa, liberia, Mozambique, Angola, Botswana, Guinea and Zambia are undergoing full-time study in the university. African students graduating from the programmes are returning to their respective countries to take up careers in teaching, apart from joining the public and private sectors.
The university now offers 50 scholarships to Africans for study beginning in August 2014. The scholarships range from 50 per cent to 100 per cent tuition waiver, based on merit.
The university has also tied-up East China University of Political Science and law (ECUPl) of Shanghai; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai; and Zhenjiang University, Hangzhou. The MoU will help facilitate academic exchange and cooperation in the field of legal studies. The two sides are developing a series of cooperative study abroad academic programmes with the aim of increasing educational exchanges between India and China.
The institutions will henceforth engage in wide-ranging joint initiatives for collaborative teaching, collaborative research, exchange of academic staff and students, joint conferences and workshops with an objective to promote excellence. During the visit, the delegation from JGU had extensive discussions with many of the leading universities in China including the Renmin University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Beihang University in Beijing and Fudan University and NYU, Shanghai.
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou has offered two fully funded scholarships to the students of JGU in order to encourage them to pursue their postgraduate programmes in China.More information on the programmes and admissions requirements are available at www.jgu.edu.in.