Manipal Univeristy inks MoU with two international varsities

Manipal Univeristy inks MoU with two international varsities

Bangalore: Manipal University along with Manipal Education, leading academic and educational service provider, today signed MoUs with Univerity of Melbourne Australia and University of Nottingham, to faciltiate and enhace academic cooperation bilaterally and multiterally.
The MoUs will translate into a number of joint programmes, which will be initially focussed on India. Later, based on the experience gained, and mutual agreement, the MoUs allow for programmes to be extended to other countries that Manipal Education is present in, Anand Sudarshan, CEO and MD, Manipal Education told reporters.
These broad-based MoUs with the two top univiveristies aim at facilitating active collaborations, he said.
Individual areas would also be identified, and specific working agrements will be arrived at. These areas would range from offering joint programmes, providing joint and dual degrees, teaching collaborations, student and faculty exchanges, to development of collaborative research programme.
These relationships will also potentially result in the development of new generation programmes and explore other collaborations in line with opportunities accorded by the education sector reforms being ushered in by the government.
University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis replied in the negative when asked whether the number of Indian students seeking admission to Australian universities had declined following incidents of attack on Indian students in his country.
Nearly 400 Indian students were studying in Melbourne university, he said.

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