Education in USA

ISB signs MoU with Tufts University
The Indian School of Business (ISB) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, to support the setting up of the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the upcoming ISB campus in Mohali, Punjab. Under the collaboration, the partners would take forward faculty exchange opportunities, curriculum development, research and teaching support in areas such as trade policy, energy and natural resource policy, environment and security policy; joint research projects and development of educational material relevant to India; specialisations in Masters level programmes; and joint executive education programmes, research workshops and conferences.

A global endeavour in education
November 29th, 2010
The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has partnered with the Shiv Nadar Foundation (SNF) for an undergraduate programme in engineering. The course that offers both mechanical and electrical engineering will also give students the opportunity to study at the CMU. The curriculum of the new course is designed by the CMU and will be taught by the faculty of the SSN institutions in India. The admission and academic processes will have the same rigorous standards that are followed at CMU. After the course, students will get a Carnegie Mellon University certificate. “India’s engineers constitute a large proportion of the world’s key scientific and research establishments. The partnership will help us offer a distinctive edge to Indian students,” said Jared Cohon, President, CMU.

Yale and IIM Kozhikode, IIT Kanpur
Yale University, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur have formed a partnership to advance higher education in India through academic leadership development programmes. The partnership which is part of the ‘Singh Obama Knowledge Initiative’ will take effect from January 2011, and will be located in two new Centres of Excellence for Academic Leadership (CEAL) that are being established at IIM-Kozhikode and IIT-Kanpur by the HRD Ministry. The flagship programme of the
partnership will be a new “India-Yale University Leadership Program,” to be developed by Yale University in consultation with IIM-K and IIT-K, that will expose university and academic leaders in India to the best practices of academic administration and institutional management in the US. The partners will also engage in joint faculty research on higher education.