Chennai: IIT-Madras and the College of Birmingham in the UK have launched a Joint Masters’ programme that may have college students learning in Birmingham and Chennai earlier than receiving a single diploma awarded by each the schools.
The joint programme will likely be delivered on campuses of the 2 establishments and mutual recognition of educational credit issued by every college will result in the award of a single diploma certificates. They’ve proposed to launch the primary joint postgraduate programme in 2023. “That is the primary such training partnership at Masters’ stage between any IIT and a UK Russell Group College,” stated a press release from IIT-M. “College students would profit from educational flexibility to study and work in present areas that may outline the way forward for world engineering and expertise.”
Professor V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, and Professor Adam Tickell, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, College of Birmingham, signed a collaborative Assertion of Intent in Chennai to discover examine areas together with knowledge science, power techniques and biomedical engineering, stated a press release from IIT-M on Wednesday. The settlement comes after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in February the place each establishments declared their intention to additional develop their partnership.
The colleges have additionally agreed to ascertain a joint analysis fund to help teachers and researchers as they discover potential analysis partnerships in knowledge science, power techniques, and biomedical engineering.
“The College of Birmingham is a world civic college and dedicated to forging significant training and analysis partnerships in India,” stated professor Tickell. “These progressive joint postgraduate programmes between IIT Madras and College Birmingham will supply college students the chance to pursue a world-class training at globally main establishments in two nations, and to have their academic achievements recognised by each.”
The colleges have additionally agreed to ascertain a joint analysis fund to help teachers and researchers as they discover potential analysis partnerships in knowledge science, power techniques, and biomedical engineering.
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