Objective of Internship

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UKIERI Overview
Malyaj Varmani Assistant Director
UKIERI British Council
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UKIERI has now become a vibrant platform for
networking and collaboration. It has also
strengthened the bilateral links in education
between India and the UK and has unleashed many
outcome based activities of importance under all
the four strands of Leadership, Innovation, Skill
and Mobility. Dr. M M Pallam Raju, Minister
for Human Resource Development, Government of
India   We share the same vision for a renewed
and enhanced educational partnership between our
two countries. The initiative has made excellent
progress and has covered many strands in
education. We now need to build on the success of
UKIERI. David Willetts, Minister of State for
Universities and Science - Department for
Business, Innovation and Skills, UK.  
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Achievements (UKIERI Phase One 2006 2011) -
Invested in a total of 182 UK India partnerships
that includes collaborative groupings among
academic researchers, clusters of school and
pairing of Further Education colleges -
Supported 55 individual awards through PhD
scholarships and fellowships - 88 facilitation
grants to travel between UK and India for
developing partnerships - Enhanced student
mobility by providing 393 British students an
opportunity to visit India under the Study India
Programme - Facilitated work placements to 106
Indian graduates under the India Graduate work
experience programme and UKIERI-GSK work
placement opportunity - Working with key
stakeholders policymakers to address the issues
of Quality Assurance, Leadership, sector skill
development and other policy issues - 40 Events
in policy dialogue and networking
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UKIERI Phase Two (2011- 2016) Strand 1
Leadership Development Enhancing capacity of
individuals and institutions on
leadership Strand 2 Innovation
Partnerships Providing opportunities for
institutions to collaborate on innovation and
thematic partnerships Strand 3 Skills
Development Enhancing UK India collaborations in
skills development Strand 4 Enhancing
mobility Fostering student mobility and mutual
recognition of learning
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• Significant Achievements under UKIERI Phase Two
  (2011 13)
• - 142 Higher Education Partnerships involving
  over 280 institutions to undertake joint research
  and programme delivery
• - 26 Skills Partnerships to support curriculum
  development and deliver industry relevant
  training
• - 216 Facilitation travel grants for partnership
  development, sharing of best practices on
  curriculum pedagogy and professional
  development
• - Opportunity to 325 British Students to visit
  India under the Study India Programme
• - Constitution of the India UK Qualification
  Recognition taskforce
• 18 events in policy dialogue and networking

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Key Statistics
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Opportunities For Institutions

• - Facilitation for partnerships
• - Capacity building through workshops, seminars
  and trainings
• - Collaboration on student mobility programmes
• - Sharing of best practices and knowledge
  enhancement

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Opportunities For States

• Facilitation of partnerships for sustainable
  impact
• Institutional Capacity building for knowledge,
  skills, research and leadership
• Developing best practices for curriculum and
  qualifications standardization
• Joint workshops/Policy engagement for leading
  systemic changes

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Opportunities for Industry

• - Engagement for knowledge transfer linking
  industry and academia
• - Develop skills for employability leading to
  well educated and trained workforce
• Engage with students and professionals from
  India and the UK, who would be future
• leaders and opinion formers
• Support investment in Research and Development

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Opportunities For Staff

• Leadership Development /Capacity building
• Supporting knowledge and skills development
• Faculty development and training

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www.ukieri.org or Write to us at
ukieri_at_britishcouncil.org Thank You !