Punjabi University signs MoU with UNBC, Canada
Patiala-The kite-flying in a section of the media about Punjabi University’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. B.S. Ghuman’s recent visit to Canada were set to rest with his signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the prestigious University of North British Columbia (UNBC). The MoU was signed by him on behalf of Punjabi University with his counterpart, Dr. Daniel Weeks, President and Vice-Chancellor of UNBC, Canada on June 14 last just on the second day of his landing on the foreign land. It was signed in the presence of Dr. Fiona McPhail, Professor and Chair, Department of Economicvs, Dr. Mark Dale, Dean, Regional Program, Mr Bjorn Peterson, Manager, International Education, and Dr. Balbinder Deo Chair, School of Business School.
The MoU, though generic in nature for the while, will open the gateways to signing such agreements between the UNBC and departments of Economics, Commerce, Media and Business Studies in the near future. Talking to the Punjabi University’s DPR, Prof. Gurmeet Maan on phone, Prof. Ghuman said that the pact would be “mutually beneficial to both the universities, especially to the students for reaping the fruits of international exposure and best learning practices. It will also help improving the quality of research and provide an opportunity to pool expertise in the field of inter-disciplinary research with students joining the bigger international projects.” The agreement, inter alia, provides for “exchanging of students and faculty exchange programmes; cooperating in the development of, and articulation of, academic programmes; and developing other mutually beneficial academic and scholastic programmes.”
