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Major Events/Visits during 2008-09

 
 

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Participation in major events abroad

1.   Technical Working Group on Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility: UK, May 19-21, 2008.

 

2.   IBSA Trilateral Joint Commission meeting: South Africa, May 6-11, 2008.

 

3.   1st meeting of India-UK Education Forum: UK, September 24-26, 2008.

 

2.   2nd meeting of the Inter-Governmental Steering Committees on the Establishment of South Asian University: Bangladesh, December 3-4, 2008.

 

3.   9th meeting of the Governing Board of SAARC Human Resource Development Centre (SHRDC): Pakistan, October 27-28, 2008.

 

4.   Signing of Joint Declaration on Multilingualism with European Union: Brussels, March 5-7, 2009.

 

5.   2nd India-France JWG meeting: France, March 9-10, 2009

 

6.   SAARC meeting of Ministers of Education: Sri Lanka, March 26-27, 2009

 

7.    1st India-Oman JWG meeting: Oman, March 29-30, 2009.

Visits by foreign delegations

1.   Chinese delegation led by Mr. Jiang Bo, Secretary General, Chinese Educational Society for International Exchange on April 1, 2008.

 

2.   H.E. Mr. Jeorge Yeo, Foreign Affairs Minister of Singapore on April 23, 2008.

 

3.   British High Commission delegation led by Deputy High Commissioner Mr. Creon Butler on April 28, 2008

 

4.  H.E. Mr. Bill Rammell, Minister of State at the Department of Education (Higher Education) and Skills, UK on May 26, 2008.

 

5.   Delegation from Lao PDR led by H.E. Ms. Sengaduane Lachanthaboun, Vice Minister of Education on June 22-28, 2008.

 

6.   Delegation from South Africa led by H.E. Ms. Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, South African Higher Education Minister on June 29-July 3, 2008.

 

7.   Delegation from Australia to attend the 2nd JWG meeting on September 16, 2008.

 

8.   Dr. Ebrahim Janahi, President of University of Bahrain on October 6, 2008.

 

9.   Delegations from Brazil and South Africa to attend IBSA Sectoral Working Group on Education meeting on October 7, 2008

 

10. H.E. Mr. Tobias Billstrom, Minister of Migration and Asylum Policy of Sweden on November 5, 2008

 

11. Delegation from New Zealand to attend Small Working Group meeting between India and New Zealand on November 6, 2008

 

12. Delegations from New Zealand, Australia and UK to attend Multilateral meeting on Quality Assurance on November 7, 2008

 

13. Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) delegation from UK on November 5, 2008.

 

14. European Commission delegation led by European Commissioner, H.E. Mr. Jan Figel on November 12, 2008

 

15.  Delegation from Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences on November 14, 2008.

 

16.  Nigerian delegation of legislators and officials from December 7-10, 2008.

 

17. H.E. Dr. S. Subramaniam, Minister of Human Resources, Government of Malaysia on January 2, 2009.

 

18. Norwegian delegation consisting of University Rectors and officials of Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research on February 23, 2009.

 

19.  Delegation from Vietnam led by Mr. Nguyen the Doanh, Head of Government Religion Committee on March 3, 2009.
 

 
 

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