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| Monday, March 03, 2008
Varsity plans overseas campuses
- It will be set up on a revenue-sharing basis
with other countries
- More teachers to be recruited to depute them
on overseas assignments
COIMBATORE: Anna University, Coimbatore, is moving to set up
campuses in other countries, subject to further approvals.
These will function as full-fledged colleges affiliated to it.
The countries that have expressed interest are Sri Lanka, Dubai
(a part of the United Arab Emirates), Bahrain, Singapore, Malaysia
and Japan.
According to Vice-Chancellor R. Radhakrishnan, this proposal,
approved by the Syndicate, will help provide quality technical
education at an affordable cost to students in those countries.
The Vice-Chancellor said: “Many non-resident Indians have
requested the university to establish our campuses abroad as
there is no government institution offering quality higher education
there. At present many private players have their campuses abroad
and they charge exorbitant fees. The university will go ahead
with the proposal once it is approved by the University Grants
Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education and
the Ministry of Human Resource Development.”
The proposed overseas campuses would be established on a revenue-sharing
basis with the governments of the countries concerned. The revenue-sharing
arrangements would be decided on a case-to-case basis with the
Syndicate’s approval.
“This will be the first move of its kind for a government-controlled
university in India to establish its campus abroad. Other institutions
only have study centres. This will not be so. Affiliation and
other regulations will apply to those colleges as it applies
to those here,” he said.
The university would recruit more teachers to depute them on
overseas assignments. In some cases the university would also
recruit from the overseas locations.
Students in those countries would receive degrees of Anna University,
Coimbatore. This would also provide an opportunity for the university
students studying here to do twinning programmes in those colleges,
he said.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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