Badal advocates student and faculty exchange programme

Seeking academic collaboration with Thompson Rivers University (TRU) of Canada, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today emphasised the need for frequent student and faculty exchange programme for the benefit of the students of the state.
Interacting with a high level delegation of the university, Badal said it was the need of the hour to update the knowledge of students and upskill the teachers from both the countries.
He said that as the world was swiftly emerging as a 'global village' so it was all the more important to ensure that students and teachers could be benefit from it.
Badal said that state universities could collaborate with the Thompson Rivers University for starting this student and faculty exchange programme.

Dwelling on another issue, the Chief Minister asked the visiting delegation to provide good teachers to the state for teaching English in government schools and colleges.
He said the state government would bear the entire expenditure of such guests teachers, who could enhance the reading, writing and speaking skills of students in English language, to brighten their future prospects.

Badal said the state government was not averse to the idea of sending delegation of teachers from the state to Thompson University for imparting training to them in order to enhance their capacities and capabilities.
During the meeting Chief Executive Officer of Thompson Rivers University Baihua Chadwick said that the university was eager to collaborate with Punjab in the field of academics.

Welcoming the proposal mooted by the Chief Minister regarding student and faculty exchange programme, she said that students and teachers from both the sides would mutually benefit from this initiative.