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Sunday, Mar 20, 2005
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Education University of Sunderland opens office in India Our Bureau
New Delhi , March 19 OSCAR-WINNING film producer Lord David Puttnam has launched the Country Office India for one of the UK's modern universities, University of Sunderland. Lord Puttnam has made films such as The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero and Chariots of Fire which got him 26 Academy Awards Nominations, 10 Golden Globes, 68 BAFTA Nominations, 25 awards and a lot more. The list is longer and impressive, but he bade adieu to films in 1998 to focus on education. Since then he has been promoting academic, distance learning in every nook and corner of the world. He has been Chancellor of the University of Sunderland since 1998. University of Sunderland is a higher education institution based in the North-East England, delivering its programmes in collaboration with institutions in 19 countries. It has over 16,000 students from over 70 countries. "The University's Country Office in India will act as a one-stop-shop offering a full range of guidance to students who wish to study with us. We aim to form partnerships with quality institutions to deliver our programmes in India and also to participate in progression arrangements that will enable their students to take up bachelors and masters study opportunities in Sunderland," said Lord Puttnam. "The institute has partnered with APTECH Ltd in the country to deliver the top up year to its students of B.Sc. (Honours) Computer Studies at the Chennai centre of APTECH. It is in final stages of talks for partnerships with some other educational institutes as well," the Country Manager of University of Sunderland, Ms Nidhi Kapur told Business Line.
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