CBSE will set up office in UAE soon: Education Minister

IIT Delhi’s Abu Dhabi campus will start classes in January 2024.

“More universities can come in the near future. More than 100 schools of CBSE, India’s prominent national education board, are functional in UAE…. We are soon going to open a CBSE office here,” Pradhan said.

Pradhan met Minister of Education Ahmad Al Falasi and signed an MoU that aims to strengthen the existing cooperation in the field of educational institutions in both countries, by facilitating student and faculty mobility, joint research programmes, designing courses, and various other initiatives.

“The MoU is expected to facilitate regulations, legal structures and best practices in general and higher education in both countries, framework and policies in general and higher education including national qualifications frameworks in order to facilitate mutual recognition of qualifications between both the countries, and academic collaboration between higher education institutions in both the countries for offering twinning, joint degree and dual degree programmes, among others,” it added.

— with inputs from PTI

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