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Alagappa University enters into MoU with four foreign institutions

Staff Reporter

To conduct joint academic courses and programmes The respective faculty and students would be encouraged to pursue collaborative research programmes, besides short-term visits in the areas of common interest with funding sponsorship

Karaikudi : The Alagappa University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with four foreign universities, including three Chinese universities, to conduct joint academic courses and programmes in full compliance with the accreditation and professional requirements of the institutions.

After visiting China and Malaysia, the Vice-Chancellor, P. Kanniappan, said it was an important step for the Alagappa University, which was trying to give much needed expose to students and teachers of the university.

He said he signed the MoU with the Presidents (Vice-Chancellors) of Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Jiujang University, Jiangxi and Yunyang Teachers College, Hubei Provice, all Chinese universities, and Multimedia University, Malaysia.

Dr. Kanniappan said the MoU would encourage voluntary interaction and co-operation and promote campus internationalisation of the respect universities. The respective faculty and students would be encouraged to pursue collaborative research programmes, besides short-term visits in the areas of common interest with funding sponsorship.

The MoU would also facilitate transfer of academic credit-bearing courses based on mutual transparency of course content and faculty qualification, exchange of graduate and undergraduate students for study and research, exchange of faculty for instruction, research and lectures, exchange of educational materials, research projects, publications and library materials and others, he added.

Dr. Kanniappan said the agreements were valid for a period of five years and the universities would review the MoU before the end of the specified periods to evaluate the progress made and would be extended further on mutual consent.

As part of the MoU, a Chinese delegation would be visiting the Alagappa University next month. It was proposed to offer one-year advanced short-term language proficiency course in Communicative English.

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