Cotton college to be on global education map

Updated on: Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Assam government has taken steps to put the premier educational institution, the Cotton College, on the global education map.

State education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said as a first step, a delegation from Columbia University recently visited the college and discussed with authorities the ways to explore this possibility.

The first round of meeting with the team which was headed by the director of Earth Institute of the Univeristy was held in the college premises recently in which a decision was taken to form a core group to carry forward the process.

Columbia university has tie-ups with a few leading educational institutions of the country including the JJ college of Architecture and Birla Institute of Technology.

The university has also set up seven global schools including one in Mumbai.

Sarma said the possibility of joint research projects by the Columbia University and Cotton College would be explored in the future with the possibility for mutual visits of teachers and students of both the institutions.

The core group, the minister said will explore the possibility of exchange visits which will be beneficial for the students.

Lamenting that the students of the state though brilliant, lack exposure and given a chance to visit the top univerisities of the world "will work wonders from them".

Sarma said the talks will be expedited after appointment of the vice chancellor of the Cotton University, a bill for which was passed in the state assembly recently.

The government is plannning to appoint the vice chancellor of the new university by September next and the prime minister will be invited to inaugurate the university, Sarma said.

Cotton college to be on global education map

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