Hyderabad, February 09: Ethames Graduate School, UK opened its India campus in the city, which was inaugurated by the minister of state for human resources development (Higher Education), Daggubati Purandeswari.
The Central government will try to introduce the Foreign Universities Bill in the Budget session, Purandeswari said. She appealed to foreign universities to offer more quality courses to Indian students. Stating that higher education percentage is only 12 percent in India, she said the government is planning to increase it to 20 percent.
SEH Razavi, marketing manager, Ethames Graduate School India said, “Students who want to study here are being offered courses of sandwich programmes – wherein the first part of the course will be conducted in the city and they can study the second part at one of the EThames campuses in London to complete their Bachelors or Masters degree awarded by EThames partner universities in UK.”
They are also constructing a second campus in the city which will include residential units for students. The idea behind such a concept is to provide quality education to students at their door-step, in their own city, and make it easily accessible. “Sometimes students may be hesitant to move out of their comfort zone and sometimes it is not possible for them to go abroad due to financial aspects. The reasons can be many,but now we have come up with a tailor-made solution,” said Razavi humbly.
Admissions are currently open for February intake of students for undergraduate and postgraduate courses. For further details, one can either visit the campus located at Punjagutta or log on to www.etgs.org.in/admission.
–Agencies