Friday, 18 May 2012

India- UK Conference on Innovation and Skill Development

The India-UK Round Table Conference on Innovation and Skill Development was held on 20th April 2012 at New Delhi.

The Innovation round table discussions were focused on roadmap of India and UK on Innovation in education, framework for India-UK Partnerships, University Innovation clusters, Business University linkages, Centres of excellence and multi-partner collaborations, University incubation programmes and sandwich degrees/post doctoral research. The focused areas of discussion in the skills sector included strategy and roadmap on skills in India and UK; Qualification Framework, Leadership and Professional development and vocationalisation of secondary education. Both countries agreed for cooperation in all the above discussed areas.

Both countries agreed to collaborate in institutionalizing the process for improving the interface between institutions of higher learning and business in both the Innovation and Skill sectors by knowledge sharing, capacity building and developing pathways for commercialization and engaging the skilled manpower.

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