JASWANT SINGH GANDAM / RAMAN NEHRA
India Post News Service
PHAGWARA: Lovely Professional University(LPU) signed eleven memorandums of understanding (MoUs) prominent institutions of Indonesia on a single day, a varsity release said Monday.
These MoUs are for providing students with enriched study approaches in diverse fields including hotel management, agriculture, engineering, pharmacy and law among others.
For MoUs, head of the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) of Indonesia’s Sumatra Utara province, Dr Dian Armanto, led a 26-member delegation comprising rectors, heads, and professors of different institutions to the LPU campus. LPU Executive Dean Dr Sanjay Modi, Registrar Dr Monica Gulati, and Additional Director Aman Mittal received the guests from Indonesia.
Presiding over the MoU signing ceremony, Mr Aman Mittal said: “It is indeed a proud moment as LPU truly becomes the global foster house for internationalization, academic collaboration and diverse research opportunities. With such massive collaboration at a stretch, LPU has set up another benchmark with its partner universities. I feel that with these MoUs the students and faculty members of both Indonesia and LPU in India will not only strengthen their academics and research but also imbibe diversely rich cultural heritage and uniqueness of one another.”
Expressing all praise for the mesmerizing study environment at LPU and thanking its officials for their wonderful hospitality Dr Armanto said: “In Indonesia, we all are going to pursue the things signed here in letter and spirit by working together and mutual understanding. We anticipate holistic development of students and faculty members of both the sides with such a historic collaboration.”
The Indonesian universities and institutions with which LPU signed the MoUs are Akademi Maritim, Universitas Darma Agung, Universitas Pembangunan Panca Budi (UNPAB), Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatra Utara, Universitas Simalungun, Institut Teknologidan Bisnis, STIE Sibolga, Universitas Sisingamangaraja XII Tapanuli Utara, STIKes Helvetia, Universitas Asahan, and, Universitas Medan Area. These universities have collaborated with LPU to enhance bilateral ties through programs of joint research, faculty and student exchange, faculty development, curriculum development, automation and more.
