New Delhi: SKIL Infrastructure Limited, a leading infrastructure company, will open a B-School campus at Greater Noida in Delhi NCR in association with the University of Strathclyde Business School.
This will be the premier Scottish Varsity’s first Indian campus.
The joint initiative will deliver undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA level courses. Similar campuses are expected to be launched at Mumbai and Chennai later.
This is the second major exercise in education by SKIL which has recently decided to take a stake in the world’s largest VSAT education network company Everonn Education Limited.
The agreement between SKIL and Strathclyde is an important new link between Scotland and one of the world’s most important economies, said company officials.
Welcoming the development, Scotland’s Enterprise Minister, Jim Mather, said: “This new collaboration will help strengthen relations between Scotland and India – one of the world’s fastest growing economies – and progress the education aims of the Scottish Government’s India Plan.
“By expanding its reach into India, Strathclyde Business School is helping raise Scotland’s business and executive education profile on the global stage. I look forward to seeing this partnership progressing.”
Nikhil Gandhi. Group Chairman of SKIL, said: “The establishment of the Strathclyde Business School will contribute to the enhancement of skill sets and knowledge levels of Indian management students.”
The Noida campus will be functional in September 2011.
In phased developments over the next couple of years, more than 1200 students are expected to join the School, where they will be taught by 40 internationally recognised staff from India and Strathclyde Business School’s base in Glasgow.
The recruitment process for the academic staff will begin next month.
“The new Delhi campus will widen access and give more Indian students the chance to study at Strathclyde Business School at a much lower cost than relocation to the UK,” said Jim McDonald, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde.