Chandigarh, 10 June : With education sector going through transition phase in its flight to higher standards of quality, Indian educational institutes and universities are ready to plunge into deep waters like never before. The flag bearers for rapid change and experimentation in education are private players who are more given to innovation and out of box thinking. The most pronounced changes being observed are those pertaining to revamping of traditional programmes in accordance with requirements in job market.
In an attempt to provide the education par Global standards, players like LPU have introduced global programs like twinning programmes and international In a recently concluded trip to Singapore, 68 students of LPU visited various educational institutes and business organizations in the South East Asian republic. And another 61 students are leaving for USA on June 13, 2009 for one month industry training programme in USA.
The International Programmes also has a facet of cost advantage also attached to them; the cost of getting an international exposure by means of getting educated in a foreign country. On an average, a student has to shell out Rs. 55 lakh for a BTech degree, while studying abroad. But the BTech International programme at LPU costs close to 10% of this cost. To keep parity of the course curriculum with respect to international standards, it has been designed by infusing the best and brightest attributes of foreign education from UK and USA universities and other academic hubs across the globe.
Lovely Professional University has come up with a new range of programmes in 2008, named international programmes (with global exposure). These programmes have been introduced keeping in mind requirement of the industry, which calls for professionals deft in working in global business settings and are acquiescent with business cultures across the globe.
The programme entails industrial visits of students to two foreign countries from developed world, for apprising and educating them about global business practices. The first visit will be to Singapore or Malaysia of a period of one week, whereas the second one-month visit will be to USA or a Eurpoean country. The two destinations have been decided upon, given the fact that ASEAN is emerging as a powerful economic block (for which Singapore/Malaysia have been chosen) and USA/Europe have traditionally been India’s major markets for exports.
These programs are apart from more than 150 programmes being offered in its campus. The idea behind running such courses is to create global human resources, capable of undertaking operational responsibilities of MNCs on a transnational level.
Mr. Ashok Mittal, Chancellor-LPU says, “Post 1991 reforms India Inc has risen up like a phoenix, and Indian companies have started looking beyond the domestic market. This calls for a huge army of professionals, who are not only skilled technically, but should be equipped with the knowledge of global business practices so that they can easily adapt themselves in the corporate culture of alien country. This is how; we can create more Indira Nooyis, Arun Sarins and Sabir Bhatias.”