UK higher education needs to look beyond international student recruitment when engaging with Indian counterparts and ensure cooperation is equitable, stakeholders have reiterated.
Speaking at a QS report launch event in the House of Lords, founding VC at OP P Jindal Global University, C. Raj Kumar, challenged university representatives to rethink their engagement with the South Asian country.
Kumar suggested that each university should introduce immersion trips for 500-1,000 UK students to travel to India annually, allow Indian faculty to teach short-term at UK institutions, create more joint conferences both in the UK and in India and introduce more courses on the study of India.
Additionally, they should engage with industry to create internship opportunities for both Indian and UK students, he said.
