MEGHALAYA:
Vice Chancellor of the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM) Professor G D Sharma will visit the head office of United Kingdom (UK) ENIC in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and leading UK higher education institutions from June 4 to June 8, in a delegation of education professionals, with an aim to understand the education system in the UK from the perspective of articulation arrangements for mutual recognition of qualification between Indian-UK higher education institutes.
Sponsored by the British Council, the delegation will be led by Rittika Chanda Parruck, Director, of Education, British Council India. The delegation aims at meeting global needs through collaboration and achieving excellence by picking up the best policies.
Prof G D Sharma informed, “There will be workshops and meetings during our visit that would focus on global recognition convention and implications for qualification and evaluation and mobility, learning outcomes construct/best practice, discussions on duration vs demand or difficulty, 3 vs 4-year degree duration, skills-based assessment, among others.”
During the visit, the delegation will attend meetings and engage with relevant stakeholders from UK International offices in curriculum development, teaching, learning, assessment, and the UK education system as well as discussions on open-university and distance learning programs.
The panel will deliberate on key challenges, opportunities, degree recognition, and equivalences between the two countries to get an understanding of methodologies and best practices in the UK to evaluate qualifications and the assessment process. The institutional visits will be done to develop an understanding of international degree programs, ODL in UK Higher Education Institutes.