Canadian universities will be funding a series of India-specific initiatives valued at over $4 million

Canadian universities will be funding a series of India-specific initiatives valued at over $4 million

Canadian universities announce India-specific initiatives

Canadian universities will be funding a series of India-specific initiatives valued at over $4 million. These investments include the new Globalink Canada-India Graduate Fellowship.
A statement issued by the Indian ministry for human resources announced today that eight Canadian universities would be providing graduate fellowships for top Indian students who wish to pursue a Masters or PhD in Canada.
The Globalink Canada-India Graduate Fellowship Programme will provide 51 scholarship valued at more than CAD $3.5 million for Indian students who participate in the MITACS Globalink programme in 2010.
The announcement was made by Stephen J Toope, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia, in the presence of the Indian Minister for Human Resources Development Kapil Sibal and Gary Goodyear, Canada’s Minister of State (Science and Technology).
Sibal said that technology solutions must be affordable for common people, and hoped that the collaboration between the Canadian and Indian universities would go a long away towards achieving this end.
Four memoranda of understanding (MoS) were signed earlier in the day. The first was between the University of British Columbia and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi on a long-standing student mobility agreement. This deal involves undergraduate engineering students spending time at each others’ institutions.
The second was between the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Amal Jyothi College of Engineering to jointly offer a Bachelor of Applied Science in Nuclear Power degree.
The third, between the Royal Roads University and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) seeks to establish an education partnership that will explore joint delivery of programmes through blended and distance education programmes.


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