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| Indo-US Inter-University Collaborative
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Fifteen leading American Universities including
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and the Universities of Massachusetts,
Washington, Texas, Illionois and University of California
at Los Angeles, joined hands with the Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO), the Department of Science and Technology
(DST) and AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham to enhance higher education
and research in India. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
to this effect was signed, here today.
The US signatories in this MOU will depute their faculty to
teach and lead research programmes that will be accessible
to a wide cross-section of colleges and universities in India
via AMRITA’s E-Learning facility and ISRO’s Edusat.
The programme will focus initially on engineering and computer
science, information and communication technologies, but courses
will also include materials science, biotechnology and bioinformatics,
nanotechnology, medical sciences and management sciences.
Speaking on the occasion, Secretary, Department of Science
and Technology, Prof. V.S. Ramamurthy said the biggest challenge
in education sector is good quality education which will prepare
scientists for tomorrow. He said, producing good quality students
and properly trained teachers is the need of the hour and
should be made a part of the long term strategy. For this,
Prof. Ramamurthy said, uniformity of training across the world
is a must and the signing of today’s MOU is a step forward
in that direction.
Source : Ministry
of Science & Technology
Date : December 07, 2005
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