A high powered delegation from Thailand is on a visit to India to explore the possibilities of international co-operation with Indian universities for higher education.
The delegation, headed by Thailand's higher education commission secretary general Pravich Tongroach, had visited Visvesvaraya Technological University Studio in Bangalore. The secretary general had a live interactive session with the principals, faculty members and students of the engineering colleges over the VTU-EDUSAT network. The objective of his visit was to explore international co-operation.
Thailand explores tie-up in education
Now IGNOU at London and Paris
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is now spreading its wings not only at national level but also internationally, as a part of its plan to spread across the message of education.
The university is set to start its centre in London from July this year that aims to offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. According to the officials, after London, Paris would be the next destination for expansion. It was also reported that the London venture, despite the university's experience in running centres abroad, might not prove to be an easy task as it is expected to face a tough competition from the UK Open University (UKOU).
Top US research awards to Indian Students
For a research on a new way of detecting toxic lead and copper in water, Prasun Chatterjee, an Indian environmental engineering student has won one of the highest US research honours. Chatterjee, a research student at the University of Lehigh, Pennsylvania, will receive the 2010 C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Environmental Chemistry Division when ACS holds its fall national meeting in Boston in August.
Chartered by the US Congress, ACS is the world's largest scientific society and the premier international organization for chemists, chemical engineers and related professions. The Gonter award, named after a noted research chemist and consultant, is given to a graduate student for an outstanding research paper. Chatterjee's doctoral research has led to the development and synthesis of an inexpensive inorganic material that can detect toxic lead or copper in water at the parts-per-billion level by using a pH meter or pH paper.
