Coimbatore college ties up with Kyrgyz varsity 

An Indo-Kyrgyz IT Research and Training Centre is to be established in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, under a memorandum of mutual understanding signed between city-based Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology and Kyrgyz State Technical University. "The MoMU has paved the way for exchange of scholars, exchange of curriculum materials, research information, short term exchange visits of faculty members, exchange of students aiming to get academic degree," S. Thangavelu, Chairman of Sri Shakti Institute, said in a release in Coimbatore recently.

The institute would finance, create infrastructure for conducting training process, deploy required man power from India and also locally finance vast publicity to attract students, professionals, teachers and others like governmental organs and banks, to fulfill the software/hardware demands of CIS countries, he said. The university, the main technical university imparting education in various engineering and economic fields with more than 40 specialities and 13,000 students, would provide premises with infrastructure, logistic/technical support, introduce course programme on short term basis. — PTI