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Vignan, Edinburgh Napier join hands

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Synergy: Vignan varsity Director C.U. Rao with Scotland-based Edinburgh Napier University Dean Jack Worden in Guntur on Monday. —

GUNTUR: Scotland-based Edinburgh Napier University signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Guntur-based Vignan University in Guntur on Monday to put in place a mechanism for joint academic, research programmes and student, faculty exchange.

The Vignan University Strategic Management Director C. Umamaheswara Rao signed the agreement with Napier University International School Dean Jack Worden here to encourage interaction between staff, inter-institutional visits etc.

The 200-year-old university was looking for a right partner in Andhra Pradesh and Vignan University that was granted Deemed University status in December last year was their first choice, Mr. Worden told media persons.

“We are looking at the expertise in Pharma Sciences, Electronic and Electrical Communication and Information Technology of the Vignan to help our students. The Edinburgh university among the top 10 in the United Kingdom has strength in Civil Engineering, Life Sciences and Drug Design,” he explained.

With Computing School of the foreign university one the most recognised ones, the Vignan hopes to send some of the students under twinning programme. In addition to this the two other major areas of interest for the Indian students would be Hospitality Management and Business School, to achieve international standards in education, the Edinburgh university India Operations Director Ashwini Kumar said.

Currently about 2,200 foreign students study various programmes in the university with 550 of them hailing from India (predominantly South India), said Mr. Jack Worden, which had enthused them to enter into an understanding with the Vignan, though they had similar ties with ISB and IIHM in Kolkata. Other major contributors to its foreign student strength were China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and pointed out their placements were bright anywhere in the world.

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