Varsities sign MOU amid India Canada row

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: O.P Jindal Global University (India) and Canadian-based, York University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), to a wider spectrum of education.

On September 22 the event took place at the Bengalurubased, Renaissance Bengaluru Race Course Hotel, where both university officials spoke to the media.

In the press meet, they showed confidence in terms of student education across the countries so far. The mutually beneficial opportunity for the students and the researchers in the Indian Immersion Programme with O.P Jindal University, as it is important for Canadian students to understand India in terms of mutual growth and cultural impact.

They have a plan to do a pan-India entrepreneurship boot camp in the future, which would expose the students to the market, officials said.

Focusing on the prospects, Prf. (Dr.) Rhonda L. Lenton President & Vice Chancellor, York University said; “Jindal Global University has an opportunity to play a greater role while the geopolitical tensions as well as inflations are getting trouble to the market so far.”

India and Canada are the natural partners to lead this new global context, he added. To narrate the situation in terms of education, Prof. (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar founding Vice chancellor of O.P Jindal University said; “Recent Data from the Canadian Bureau for International Education shows that 34% of Canadian international students are from India.”

It is utmost needed to go global, the relationship would boost the long-term educational relationships across these two countries, he added.

In addition, Prof. (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar mentioned that it is natural for the two countries as they share many diplomatic and cultural associations along with student mobility, research partnerships, and educational exchanges that would generate more productive outcomes in the future.

At the culmination of the event, the York University officials said; the University leads the academic partner transformative new Global Water Academy that would tackle water sustainability in partnership with UNITAR.

However, it was also mentioned that Indian universities can be at the forefront of advancing innovation, and technology, and promoting entrepreneurship, they concluded.