The Hindu Business Line : BAE plays host to students from Bangalore

Twenty pupils from three Bangalore schools are on a two-week visit to East Yorkshire, experiencing the British school life, the culture, science and engineering there as part of the UK India Education and Research Initiative or UKIERI. Their host is the defence and aerospace major BAE Systems, which has its headquarters in Brough.

A BAE release said the team of pupils and teachers from Coorg Public School, Sri Kumaran Public School and Innisfree House School were visiting three schools in Brough. They would take part in assemblies, lessons, art and technology projects. BAE is one of the four corporate champions of the five-year UKIERI initiative signed in April 2006 and is investing £1,00,000 (around Rs 74 lakh) each year in these projects to promote culture, science and engineering among young people.

If Brough is where BAE is based, Bangalore is home to Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd which is licence-building the Hawk advanced jet trainer aircraft that BAE has sold to the Indian Air Force. The pupils have toured the BAE site and met the engineers working on the Hawk, the release said. Mr Kerry Featherstone, Head of Assurance & Business Improvement at BAE, was cited as saying, “Our involvement in this project is part of an extensive outreach programme working with schools, colleges and universities in the communities in which BAE Systems operates.”

BAE said it was working with schools in Brough and “Teachers from Brough have already travelled to Bangalore to meet their Indian counterparts and have developed joint curriculum projects.” The schools and their students can share resources and communicate online on a special Web site and through Webcams.

UKIERI is managed by the British Council. It involves many UK public sector organisations, corporate partners BAE Systems, BP, GlaxoSmithKline and Shell, the local administrations and the Government of India.

It has committed almost £20 million (around Rs 148 crore) to improve educational links between the two countries and promote hundreds of bilateral partnerships in higher education; schools; and professional and technical skills. According to its site, the schools programme covers clusters of 127 State-funded and 148 private schools. It supported 11 clusters in the first year and 13 clusters each in the second and third year.

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