Education key pillar of strategic global partnership: Rao

Education has emerged as a key pillar of the ongoing strategic global partnership between India and the United States, Indian Ambassador to the United States Nirupama Rao said today.
There has been considerable progress in expanding the bilateral initiative, specially in the area of community colleges, online education and research and innovation, Rao said while speaking on 'Indo-US Knowledge initiative' as part of the Calicut University's frontier lecture series.
She said community colleges, which were well established all over the US, could provide us with lessons that could be relevant to Indian needs.
A Memorandum of Understanding to promote collaboration in the education field was signed between the US National Level Community College Organisation and AICTE last week, she said.

Earlier the Malayalam translation of Rao's poetry collection 'Mazha Kanakkunnu' (rain rising), was released by T P Sreeenivasan, Vice Chairman of Kerala State Higher Education Council.