India-US higher education cooperation to help take bilateral ties forward
A day after India-US announced the intent
to establish a new Education and
Skills Development Working Group, a Washington-based expert said that higher education cooperation
between the two countries will help deliver the real promise of diplomatic
relationship.
"Great today to be at Howard University to have a meeting
with the Secretary of State and India's External Affairs Minister to talk about
the real promise of US-India higher education cooperation,"
Richard Rossow, Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies at Center for
Strategic and International Studies, told ANI.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and External Affairs Minister
S Jaishankar on Tuesday participated in a conversation with students, faculty,
and leadership of Howard University. Both foreign ministers interacted with
Indian students, scholars, and researchers who have worked in the United
States, and with US students, scholars, and researchers.
Talking about the key takeaways from this interaction, Rossow said
the high-level takeaway is that both ministers got together to talk about
higher education. "When you talk about 200,000 Indian students coming
here, number of US universities that have research partnerships there-a lot
going on that underpins many other elements of our relationship," he
added.
At the working level, Rossow said that the ministers announced
during the 2+2 Summit on Monday that they created a new working group on higher
education skills development. "Trying to underscore and underpin this
vital element of our relationship that sits there, very exciting to see this
much attention," he said.
On the question of what more can be done in the field of higher
education, Rossow said "Once the American business realise that India is
today and certainly will be in future a critical part of global investment and
trade regimes, they got to send signals to MBA students that you need a little
bit of background if you gotta succeed in big corporate America."
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