After a week-long tour of United Kingdom, Haryana Technical Education Minister Ram Vilas Sharma on Wednesday said that several memorandum of understanding (MoU) have been signed, which will increase employment opportunities in the state and research will be carried out with the Universities of London. The State will benefit greatly from the visit of the Technical Education Department to Britain.
The delegation of four vice-chancellors and senior officers of department of technical education from June 30 to July 6, led by Sharma held 20 meetings with various London universities in five working days.
Addressing a news conference here, Sharma said that it has been agreed to set up an International Training Centre with the assistance of King's College of London to train civil employees and technical field teachers of Haryana.
MoU has been signed with University of Northampton and Nottingham Trent University, UK to establish a progressive ecosystem to identify the futuristic area for collaboration.
MoU with NTPC Group of Colleges is under process. These groups have agreed to upgrade the vocational skills education and teachers training via pedagogy training and provide assistance in creating an eco-system for incubator/entrepreneurship with centre of excellences being established in the state, he said.
The Minister informed that during London visit, the major issues discussed included curriculum development, qualification framework, faculty exchange and visit, students’ exchange, skilling, technical education, joint academic research, commercialisation of research, funding opportunities, setting up of innovation and incubation centers and entrepreneurship learning and placements.
Sharma further said that the Haryana government is taking all possible steps to propagate the message of teachings of holy Bhagwad Gita at the International level and the Gita Mahotsav will be held at London from August 7 to 9.