While speaking at a programme - West Bengal- UK Roundtable on Higher Education, the West Bengal education minister said that its government was in favour of foreign higher educational institutes with good academic reputation setting up their bases in the state.
The government of West Bengal is interested in setting up a base of foreign higher educational institutes in the state. Blaming the Centre, Minister Bratya Basu has said the government was in favour of foreign higher educational institutes with good academic reputation setting up their bases in the state but "the ball is in the Centre's court". Basu, the state education minister, was speaking at a programme - West Bengal- UK Roundtable on Higher Education on Thursday evening.
He also claimed about interacting with representatives of six higher educational institutes from the UK, which have expressed interest to set up their bases in the state. On the programme, the minister also invited UK institutes to partner with us to accelerate two-way mobility of faculty and students, dual programmes, setting up campuses in West Bengal and enhance our joint research in areas of mutual interest.
Talking about the central government, the minister added that West Bengal can facilitate the process by extending all help as partners if the Union government gives its nod. West Bengal is an “important hub for education” and houses a number of institutes of national importance for academics as well as research, he said.
The minister also talked about signing of 22 MoUs between the state-run and private universities in Bengal at the business summit on various subjects ranging from academic exchanges to research.
This year's Bengal Global Business Summit featured education as a key sector for employment generation and the creation of international quality research institutes so that Bengal can function as a hub for all of the east, north-east and ASEAN countries, the minister said.
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