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IANS | 19 Jul, 2018
O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with Harvard University to expand their
collaborations in three areas, including in student engagement through
an annual teaching session at Harvard for Jindal students.
The
other two areas of collaborations that the MoU opened were organising
joint conferences on themes of interest to both the institutions and
engaging in other research and educational activities.
The MoU
was signed by JGU and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
(HSPH) at Harvard University on Wednesday and institutionalised their
ongoing collaboration on student engagements and paved way for other
opportunities of institutional engagement between the two institutions,
the Sonipat, Haryana-based JGU said in a statement.
In
partnership with JGU, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has been
organising for the past three years a study programme on the theme of
"Human Rights and Development" at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The student
engagement collaboration has taken the form of an annual study abroad
programme conducted at Harvard University for nearly 30 students from
JGU, the statement added.
At the successful completion of the
programme, the Jindal students earn academic credits and the course will
get reflected in the transcript, it added.
"The steady growth of
JGU has been an extraordinary development in higher education in large
part because of its constant focus on excellence and its commitment to
global education, with over 200 collaborations in 50 countries," said
Harvard's Stephen Marks, who leads the programme along with JGU Vice
Chancellor C. Raj Kumar.
"This MoU will facilitate Harvard's engagement with JGU in this commitment to excellence and global education," Marks added.
Future
conferences that are being considered under the MoU include issues that
are at the intersection of human rights, development, law, public
policy, public health and governance.
The Jindal Global Law
School and the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy will be the
principal partners to collaborate with the Harvard Chan School in these
future conferences, JGU said.
The MoU also opens the way for
joint research projects, joint training and capacity-building programmes
and joint publications in the field of human rights, development and
public health, JGU said.
"The collaboration with Harvard is an
example as to what a young Indian university with a vision for promoting
excellence can accomplish and indeed offer fantastic opportunities to
its students and faculty," JGU VC Raj Kumar said.
Naveen Jindal,
founding Chancellor and JGU benefactor, said: "I am most delighted to
learn about the collaboration that JGU has established with Harvard in
relation to education and research. This achievement is a testament to
the passion, commitment and dedication of our faculty and students."
He
added that the current year has been great for JGU as it had been given
the "status of an autonomous institution by the Ministry of Human
Resource Development" for having "broken into the QS BRICS Rankings 2018
and recognised as one of the top 250-300 universities among the 9,000
universities in the BRICS region".
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