Alison Barrett
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From key initiatives that come under the Memorandum of Understanding that was signed between the Karnataka Government and British Council to India-U.K. collaborations in the education sector, Alison Barrett, MBE, Director India, British Council, spoke about various issues in an interaction with The Hindu.
What are the key objectives of the Memorandum of Understanding signed?
We aim to build strong deep connections between India and U.K. in the fields of art and culture, education and language. We want to do that because we want young people to connect with each other, collaborate and understand each other better and through that contribute to a better world in many different ways. Our collaboration with Karnataka has been going on for many years, we have a long history, particularly in higher education, we have a strong connection.
We signed a MoU a few years ago committing us to collaborate in a number of different areas in higher education to deepen connections between institutions on a policy level and to do a range of…
