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JIS Group signs MOU with AIT Bangkok

| | Mar 17, 2015, at 03:38 am
Kolkata, Mar 16 (IBNS): International academic exchange programs are recognized for their ability to foster advancement in not just teaching training and research, but also cultural understanding and cooperation.

Furthermore, students who get exposure on a global platform are more self-confident and assured in their careers, with a more wide perspective of the world around them

JIS Group Educational Initiatives has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, to pursue, promote and reinforce cooperation in the common interests of teaching, training and research.

In June 2012, Taranjit Singh (MD, JIS Group) met with the President of AIT and expressed interest in joining hands for research and other academic collaborations.

In July 2013, thirty-seven JIS group students visited AIT for a 15-day summer education camp. Similarly, there were two more winter education camps in January 2014 and January 2015 respectively. Now, JIS Group has decided to strengthen the collaboration by signing an agreement. 

The MOU was signed in the presence of Partha Chatterjee, Minister of Higher Education for the State of West Bengal; Taranjit Singh – Managing Director- JIS Group; Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, President – AIT;  Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Director – Special degree programs, AIT, and  Peeyush Soni, Doctor of Engineering (AIT).

Taranjit Singh, Managing Director, JIS Group, said, “This collaborative agreement is a first of its kind between an institute of such international repute and a group of privately financed institutions from West Bengal.”

This event will allow students, scholars and faculty members from West Bengal to undergo specialty training on an international platform in Bangkok, Thailand, in the coming years.

The collaboration also aims to foster advancement in teaching training, research and cultural understanding as well as international reputation of both the institutions. Participating students will be trained in various fields like: Construction Engineering and Management, Satellite Communication and Space Debris, Augmented Reality, Remote Sensing, Health IT and GIS, among others.

Partha Chatterjee said that this agreement was a welcome step and would cement efforts to transform Bengal into a talent destination, as more and more students would become career-ready with skills imbibed from an international perspective.

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