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India, New Zealand sign education pact
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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April 22
INDIA and New Zealand on Wednesday signed an Education Cooperation Arrangement (ECA) that entails exchange of research materials, educational literature and teaching aids, as also organisation of joint research programmes and publications.
The ECA was signed by Mr Arjun Singh, Minister for Human Resource Development, and Mr Trevor Mallard, Minister of Education, New Zealand.
"The Education Cooperation Arrangement is in the form of an umbrella arrangement and provides focused attention to collaboration in the education sector between the two countries," an official release said here.
The arrangement also envisages exchange of academic and other administrative staff; exchange of scholars, teachers, experts and students; twinning arrangements between institutions of higher learning; setting up of educational/training programmes between institutions of educational excellence in technical, vocational and higher education; and providing scholarships for further education in recognised institutions of higher learning.
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