A unique activity of the Centre is to: 

Provide an Advisory Service, as Consultants, to Overseas academic and training institutions for establishing academic collaborations, student and faculty exchanges, training courses, in-country delivery of academic programmes, and outsourcing educational related projects.

The Centre is a member of the Edulinks programme of the British Council. (www.edulinksuk-india.org)

The Institutional Partnership programme is growing with many overseas institutions interested in developing collaborative programmes with Indian institutions.

The Centre provides a comprehensive service from identification to implementation of academic collaborative projects.

A Menu of Services (MS Word) is attached for the perusal of those wishing to explore such partnerships. 

Development of Collaborations with Indian Institutes of Higher Education in Biotechnology

TIETAC undertook a Consultancy for the School of Contemporary Sciences, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK. (www.abertay.ac.uk)

"To identify five suitable organisations in India, which are running Undergraduate courses in Biotechnology and who would wish to articulate their courses with courses at Abertay (by suitable it is meant that the organisations can be considered to be producing, or will produce, graduates who would be equivalent to graduates from a UK University in terms of their level of intellectual training)."

The Consultancy commenced in August 2003 and by the end of September 2003, TIETAC had identified eleven Institutions in the cities prescribed in the ToRs. Of these eleven Institutions, TIETAC short-listed five Institutions – one in New Delhi/NOIDA, one in Chennai, one in Hyderabad and two in Bangalore.

UAD has signed “Letters of Intent” to collaborate on an Articulation Programme with four of the five Institutions. The Articulation Programme envisaged will provide selected students from the Indian Institutions to pursue a Bachelors and/or Postgraduate courses in Biotechnology, Bio-informatics and Medical Biotechnology, and has a Faculty Development component to enhance the research capabilities of the Indian Institutions.

Formal preliminary MoUs have been exchanged between three institutions - in Noida, Bangalore and Hyderabad and academic activities are ongoing since June 2004. With TIETAC’s advice students have been at UAD in since September 2004.

See testimonial on UAD for Biotechnology [MS Word]

Also See testimonials from:

Heriot Watt University - Merit International Group - Due Diligence Investigation [See Letter of Appointment as Consultants]

Durham University, UK: Identification of reputed Institutions in India, during the visit of the Vice Chancellor – Sir Kenneth Calman - for developing Research and Teaching Links with Durham University [See Authorisation Letter MS Word]

James Watt College, UK: Academic Validation of Hospitality Management courses at Indian institutions in Chandigarh and Kolkata [See Authorisation Letter MS Word]

University of East London – for Collaborative links in Biotechnology, Computing and Physiotherapy, with Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Jalandhar.

University of East London - Developing academic collaborative programmes at Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering & Technology (SSIET), Chennai.

University of Northampton: Memorandum of Understanding with Bharat Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed University), Chennai for Exchange of teaching and research personnel, Exchange of students, development of shared research activities, exploration of collaboration at course level, for example articulation and any other activity of mutual interest.

University of Brighton – In-Country Foundation Year in Engineering at the Canadian Institute of International Studies (CIIS), Jalvehra Campus, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab for progression to the UG programme in Automotive, Aeronautical, Civil, Electrical, Digital Electronics, Mechanical and Product Design courses. Also progression onto an integrated Masters programme via a top-up year on the B Engg at Brighton. 

Napier University, UK [Page 1] [Page 2]

Institute of Business Management and Technology, Bangalore [See Authorisation Letter]

The Monarch School of Cambridge, Coimbatore – [See Authorisation Letter] 

Other initiatives in the negotiation and conceptualisation stages are:

• Exchange of students between India and UK at Undergraduate Level from reputed Indian Business Schools.
• Identification of a Business College in India to offer joint Diploma programmes in Business studies of a London based Institution.
• Articulation programmes for a Fashion Institute in India with a London based University.
• Articulation programmes with an Indian Law institute.

For more details on Institutional partnerships, please email us at partnerships@tietac.org 

	Did you know? Joe and Sundar have rich experience of conceptualizing and implementing collaborative projects on institutional development, course transfer and training programmes. Related links: University of Abertay Dundee EdulinksUK-India Napier University Heriot-Watt University James Watt College of Further and Higher Education Durham University University of Brighton Canadian Institute of International Studies Sastha Engineering, Chennai Lovely Institutes, Jallandhar I H R M, Kolkata H C M I, Chandigarh

Institutional Clients:
1. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2. Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK