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A Memorandum of Understanding between Thailand and India on Cooperation in the field of Education was signed here today on the occasion of the visit of H.E. Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand to India. From the Indian side, the signatory of the MOU was Shri Arjun Singh, Hon’ble Minister of Human Resource Development. From the Thai side, it was signed by H.E. Kantathi Suphamongkon, the Thai Foreign Minister.
The MOU is in the form of an umbrella arrangement and provide a focused attention to collaboration in the Education Sector between the two countries. More specific exchanges under this programme would take place on the basis of further MOU’s to be drawn by counterpart institutions in the two countries. The areas of cooperation under this include:
i) exchange of research materials, publications, educational literature, teaching aids, demonstration materials and information;
ii) organization of joint conferences, exhibitions and seminars;
iii) organization of joint research programmes and publications
iv) organization of training programmes for educational administrators, educators and teachers;
v) exchange of academic personnel and other administrators;
vi) exchange of scholars, teachers, experts, persons with local wisdom and students;
vii) twinning arrangements between institutions of higher learning;
viii) promoting and developing bilateral programmes between institutions of educational excellence in technical, vocational and higher education;
ix) examining the possibility of mutual recognition of educational qualifications;
x) setting up of chairs on contemporary studies;
xi) providing scholarships for further education in recognized institutions of higher learning on a reciprocal basis;
xii) providing mutual assistance in the field of information technology, computer science and mathematics & science;
xiii) any other activities to be mutually agreed upon by the Parties.
There is a provision for the establishment of a Joint Working Group to oversee the Arrangement. The Joint Working Group will be chaired, on behalf of the Ministry of Education of Thailand by a representative of the Ministry of Education and on behalf of the Ministry of Human Resources Development of India by a representatives of the Department of Secondary & Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development, with participation by other Government Ministries and sector organizations as appropriate. The Joint Working Group will meet alternately in India and Thailand at least once biennially or as the participants may otherwise mutually determine, to review the outcomes of the Arrangement.
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