Impressions

FICCI organised a two-day Higher Education Summit titled "Higher Education at the Crossroads: Imperatives for Policy & Practice" on November 25 & 26, 2008 at FICCI, Federation House, New Delhi. The Event was supported by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and Canada as the Partner Country. The special features of the Summit were Conference, Exhibition and B2Bs and Master Classes.

Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission delivered the Inaugural Address and Dr David Johnston, President, University of Waterloo, Canada and Prof. Malcolm Grant, President & Provost, University College London, UK also addressed the delegates at the Inaugural session. More than 500 delegates participated in the Summit which included more than 100 foreign delegates from leading international Universities/Higher Educational Institutions. A 65 member Canadian delegation which included few Presidents of Universities attended the summit.

• Apart from India, 17 other countries had participated in the Conference, viz, Canada, EU, US, UK, Australia, Belarus, Malaysia, Mauritius, Bhutan, Malawi, Eritrea, Gabon, Zambia, Kenya, New Zealand, Singapore and Rwanda
• There was active participation from the corporate, academia, and government bodies such as Planning Commission, National Knowledge Commission, University Grants Commission, National Assessment and Accreditation Council and a few State Governments representatives from Goa, Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh.
• Exhibition of leading national & international Higher Education Institutions was organized at the conference venue where 22 Universities and associated organisations exhibited their products and services. More than 1500 school children from different schools from the NCR region visited the exhibition and were counselled about new career prospects and educational programmes.
• One-on-One meetings were organized where about more than 150 Indian and Foreign Universities participated
  
  

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