Tamil Nadu - Chennai   

SRM institute signs agreement with Korean university

Special Correspondent

It provides for academic collaboration and exchange of faculty The link with SRM would be a platform to create the required manpower, with an understanding of Korean and Indian cultures

CHENNAI: The SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), a Deemed University, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Youngsan University of Korea that provides for academic collaboration, including faculty and student exchange, besides joint research programmes.

The SRMIST's Vice-Chancellor, P. Sathyanarayanan, and the Youngsan University's President, Guwuck Bu, signed the MoU on Friday.

The agreement would be in force for five years and extended for another five-year period, Mr. Sathyanarayanan told newspersons later.

Mr. Sathyanarayanan and the university's director (Research and Virtual Education), M. Ponnavaikko, said information technology and hotel management and catering management were two focal areas in which the collaboration would begin.

Law education

The Korean university, founded by a group of judges, had a strong Centre for Law education.

"The SRM group is also planning to start a department on Law, and this partnership can help us in the move," the Vice-Chancellor added.

Mr. Guwuck Bu said Youngsan University comprised seven colleges for foreign languages and business; hotel and tourism management; culture technology; law and business; information technology, architecture and landscape; for physical education and a university college offering both broad liberal arts as well as selective courses in different subjects.

Taehee Kim, Dean, Industry-university cooperation, who has served in Korea Trade office in India for six years, said Korea was getting to be one of the biggest foreign investors in India and Korean companies required high quality trained manpower.

Manpower

The link with SRM would be a platform to create the required manpower, with an understanding of Korean and Indian cultures.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Dayanidhi Maran's appeal to private firms
Survivors still in a state of shock
For residents of MGR Nagar, a Black Sunday
Discharge from city reservoirs stepped up as precautionary measure
NGO plans to set up Netaji Centre
Those who came early were worst hit
SRM institute signs agreement with Korean university
Kin of victims face uncertain future
Barnala shocked, conveys condolences to bereaved
Lyricist Vairamuthu felicitated in Qatar
"Real ambassadors"
Vaiko faults Jayalalithaa
Records fall as monsoon continues to hammer city
Water supply cut in Adyar, nearby areas
Deaths condoled
Lectures on pervasive computing
A film series on legends of Indian art
Holiday for schools, colleges in city
Around the City
In Chennai Today
Reader's Mail

Copyright © 2005, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu