Professor Sabu S. Padmadas, Associate Dean and Founding Director, University of Southampton India Centre.
The United Kingdom (U.Okay.)-based University of Southampton is exploring transnational education opportunities in India within the framework of India’s new National Education Policy (NEP), stated Professor Sabu S. Padmadas, Associate Dean & Founding Director, University of Southampton India Centre.
“The exact timeline is unknown at this point,” he stated in an emailed interview.
He stated as a prime 100 research-intensive Russell Group University, the University of Southampton would nurture the subsequent era residents with an intention to construct an inclusive world.
In March 2019, the University established an India Centre for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development providing programmes and actions aimed toward producing high quality analysis for coverage impression and enterprise options, underpinned by innovation, enterprise, sustainability, knowledge-transfer and partnerships with Indian establishments.
The Centre adopts the University’s triple helix mannequin to handle cross-cutting international challenges, intertwining analysis, education and enterprise actions via energetic collaboration with Indian universities, authorities departments, think-tanks, companies and industries, he stated.
Professor Padmadas stated the tasks undertaken on the India Centre addresses the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals for India, U.Okay. and globally.
Stating that the India Centre’s key focus areas are aligned to India’s G20 Sherpa monitor throughout education, analysis and innovation, in specific addressing vital international challenges together with well being, atmosphere and local weather sustainability and power transitions, he stated India should quickly harness the demographic dividend and human capital growth in phrases of skilling, upskilling and reskilling to organize its younger folks jobs in future.
“The University of Southampton has strategically aligned our India engagement priorities to exploring the opportunities with the India’s new National Education Policy which offers immense potential to transforming higher education and research capabilities in the country,” he stated.
Emphasising that the University does energetic collaboration and tutorial exchanges with main greater education establishments together with the establishments of eminence throughout completely different geographic areas in India, he stated these fluctuate throughout the spectrum from analysis and enterprise tasks, twin diploma agreements, split-site PhDs, joint workshops and conferences to workers trade and scholar internships.
“One of our successful high impact initiatives at India Centre is the Kaifi Azmi Global Virtual Internship (KAVI) programme with Mijwan Welfare Society which brings together students from Southampton, GRD Institute of Management in Coimbatore and University of Western Australia to work in pairs on live projects related to employment generation and women’s entrepreneurship in rural India,” he stated.
He stated the Centre has had a number of joint tutorial actions with companions, together with IIT-Madras, OP Jindal Global University, IIIT-B, TAPMI, MICA, Jadavpur University, Amity University, and University of Kerala, in addition to with NGOs and industries.
In March 2023, it launched a digital Quarterly Research Colloquium (QRC) collectively with Tata Institute of Social Sciences and International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai to facilitate analysis and information trade in a post-COVID net-zero world.
He stated the University gives varied scholarships to Indian college students with wonderful tutorial portfolio.
Emphasising that education in British Universities is past acquiring a level, he stated college students ought to provoke and seize the opportunities to expertise cross-cultural interactions with college students from different international locations throughout the globe, and develop interpersonal skillsets to compete and carry out in the true world.
