US varsities keen to set up Indian base

Virginia Tech and Georgetown University are closely working on plans to set up campuses in India,besides tying up with Indian institutes.

Virginia Tech and Georgetown University are closely working on plans to set up campuses in India,besides tying up with Indian institutes. They have confirmed the same with Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.

Meeting Sibal along the sidelines of the Indo-US strategic dialogue in Washington,Dr Charles Steger,president of Virginia Tech,informed that his institution wishes to set up facility near Chennai for research in Bio-informatics,Nanosciences and Transportation studies. He also wanted to start select masters and Doctoral degree programmes.

CEO of Georgetown University Dr Spiros Demolitsas expressed interest in projects aimed at social science research and suggested two areas professional and executive development for policy makers and business leaders and research in climate change requiring inter-disciplinary approach.

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Sibal asked them to send concept notes,so that areas of mutual interest can be identified.

Dr Louis Goodman,Dean of School of International Service,has expressed interest in establishing an institute dedicated to Indian studies and offering inter-disciplinary courses on foreign policy and national security,science and technology policy,and sustainable development.

Addressing the Council on Foreign Relations,an important think-tank in Washington,Sibal said time has come for education to be delivered at the doorstep of the student,rather than students having to travel abroad. It is,thus,mutually beneficial for India and the US.

Sibal will meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday.

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