India's High Commissioner to the UK Navtej Sarna today interacted with more than 75 Indian academics and students here to explore Indo-UK cooperation in the field of education.
Dame Asha Khemka, principal and chief executive of West Nottinghamshire College Group, also addressed the gathering, which included Indian-origin academics who had visited India under the Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN) programme.
Sarna briefed the audience on the UK-India relationship in education, research and innovation, highlighting bilateral programmes such as India-UK Education Forum, UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), Newton-Bhabha Fund and Generation UK-India programme.
The event at India House in London was aimed at exploring India-UK cooperation in the field of education, an official release said.
The High Commissioner also spoke about GIAN, initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year.
An announcement was made during the visit of the Prime Minister to the UK about the UK's plans to send 100 academics to India over the next two academic years as part of the initiative.
Sarna also introduced the new "100 Foot Journey Club", a collaboration between the High Commission of India and the London School of Economics (LSE) South Asia Centre, which will host its first event as a talk by Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, next week.
