New partnerships with India and Australia

PA 104/10 The University of Nottingham is developing new ties with India and Australia after joining forces with two leading universities. Both Nottingham and the University of Melbourne in Australia will be working with Manipal University in India, to develop joint and dual degrees, student and staff exchanges, teaching collaborations and joint research programmes in areas including alternative energy, health sciences and public policy. Professor David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Nottingham, travelled to Bangalore to sign a Memorandum of Understanding and to start discussions with his counterparts at Melbourne and Manipal. The initiative comes against a background of proposed higher education reform in India, which will enable international universities to become more actively involved in the development and expansion of higher education in India. The University of Nottingham is one of the most 'international' universities in the UK, with 8,000 overseas students at its UK campuses and another 8,000 studying at its sites in Malaysia and China. The goal at Nottingham is for 25 per cent of all undergraduate students to undertake some form of exchange, to immerse themselves in a foreign culture while continuing with their degree studies. Professor Greenaway said: "We have been actively looking to extend our partnerships in India, which is now one of the world's largest and most dynamic economies.