{"id":1273,"date":"2018-02-01T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2019-11-07T05:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:32:30","slug":"jindal-global-university-to-represent-india-in-times-higher-education-summit-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/2018\/02\/01\/jindal-global-university-to-represent-india-in-times-higher-education-summit-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Jindal Global University to Represent India in Times Higher Education Summit, Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0<\/strong>91̽»¨ (JGU) will be participating in the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia Universities Summit to be held in partnership with Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) during\u00a05-7 February 2018<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Shenzhen, China. JGU delegation will comprise of Vice Chancellor JGU, Professor(Dr) Raj Kumar; Professor Sanjeev P. Sahni, Principal Director JIBS; Professor Arjya Majumdar, Professor Wenjuan Zhang and Ms. Pragnya Paramita Mohanty.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is noteworthy to mention\nthat JGU happens to be the only Indian university represented in this Global\nacademic summit. JGU\u2019s Founding Vice Chancellor Professor(Dr) C Raj Kumar has\nbeen invited to speak at this Summit to share the story of JGU in the larger\ncontext of India\u2019s aspirations to build world class universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor (Dr) Raj\nKumar is addressing a panel where he is going to deliberate upon a panel on \u201cBreaking boundaries \u2013\nResearch universities in the 21st century\u201d that will discuss the critical role\nof university research in the growth of the knowledge economy, and the\nimportance of internationalisation strategies in eliminating regional and\nglobal barriers to collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking on the\noccasion, Professor (Dr) Raj Kumar<\/strong> said, \u201cThe summit will give us a\nchance to share perspectives from JGU\u2019s own institutional experiences in the\nIndian context, the situated challenges of the Asian context, and evolving\nstrategies for internationalisation of universities in emerging economies.\nIndian Universities needs to overcome the challenge of providing access to high quality education for a large\nnumber of young people while promoting aspirations to build institutions of\nglobal excellence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s summit is\nbeing organised around the theme \u201cConnecting Cities, Changing the World:\nResearch Universities Building Asia\u201d. The summit will focus on themes including\nuniversities and cities \u2013 building alliances, defining regions; global research\nand education \u2013 trends, opportunities and challenges; university alliances \u2013\nresearch output defining regional strength; national innovation \u2013 universities\nas catalysts and connectors; the power of partnership: what global research\nuniversities bring to the innovation economy; fourth industrial revolution and\nhigher education \u2013 cultivating entrepreneurship, leading the future; and\nbridging divides \u2013 research universities in the global knowledge economy. The\nsummit will bring together university leaders, administrators, educators,\nthought leaders, Nobel laureates, and representatives of educational service firms\nfrom across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 This summit for JGU becomes a platform to\nunderstand the key challenges that Indian universities face as they prepare to\nwork towards becoming world class universities. It will be a huge opportunity\nfor JGU to position our university for the future in relation to this global\nranking of universities and international benchmarking of academic\ninstitutions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a091̽»¨ (JGU) will be participating in the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia Universities Summit to be held in partnership with Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) during\u00a05-7 February 2018\u00a0in\u00a0Shenzhen, China. JGU delegation will comprise of Vice Chancellor JGU, Professor(Dr) Raj Kumar; Professor Sanjeev P. Sahni, Principal Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}