The Study Abroad Programme was a result of a memorandum of understanding
between the State government and British Council under which 25
students and five professors would be visiting the U.K.
The TN Govt, through the Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education, would be spending Rs.15 lakh on each of the candidates
The first batch of students and teachers who will be going to the U.K. under the Study Abroad programme of the State government in association with British Council met Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday Aug 28,2013
The TN Govt, through the Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education, would be spending Rs.15 lakh on each of the candidates
The first batch of students and teachers who will be going to the U.K. under the Study Abroad programme of the State government in association with British Council met Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday Aug 28,2013
Handing over their admission cards and flight
tickets, Ms.Jayalalithaa advised them to make the best use of the
opportunity to improve their knowledge and use the learning for the
betterment of Tamil Nadu.
The batch comprising 14 Students, 13 of them women, and 3 Lecturers will, as part of the
programme, study and train respectively at various institutions in the
U.K. They will be going to Edge Hill, Nottingham, Royal Holloway and
Birmingham universities and the tour will be from August 28 to September
21,2013
The selected 2-year PG Students would be sent abroad in
the third semester and the State government will bear the expenses that works out to Rs. 15 lakh per head
The selection was based on a screening test.
Note
14 PG Students of Govt Colleges in TN have
been selected to go to London in a month to study for a semester in
reputed educational institutions there, said P. Palaniappan, Higher
Education Minister said at the Graduation Day of C. Kandaswami Naidu College for Women on Thursday Aug 8,2013
TN Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was keen that the opportunity of studying in
leading foreign institutions should be given to the students of 62 Govt Colleges in TN, he said.
“This is the first of its kind programme in the country,” he said
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