The UK and India have signed an agreement officially recognising each other’s higher education qualifications

The UK and India have signed an agreement officially recognising each other’s higher education qualifications. The MoU means A-levels and their equivalents, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees will now be recognised in India. Apart from encouraging student mobility, the mutual recognition of qualifications would also promote excellence in higher education through cooperation, academic and research exchanges.

The UK and India are already important destinations for each other’s students – in 2020/2021 the UK welcomed 84,555 Indian students to the UK and India is a popular destination for UK students to study abroad.

The recognition of 1 year Masters from UK has long been questioned by public sector and some universities in India, which will likely be resolved by this official agreement.

The two sides also signed MoU on mutual recognition of maritime education and training, competency and endorsements of seafarers issued by each other. The MoU will prove beneficial for the employment of seafarers of both countries and would make them eligible for employment on ships of either party. India being a seafarer-supplying nation with a large pool of trained seafarers, is expected to be significantly benefitted from the MoU.

A Framework agreement on the health care workforce was the third signed by the UK and India to facilitate the recruitment and training of nurses and AHPs from India by the UK in a streamlined manner

All three agreement copies are available at: https://lnkd.in/dTy2Tgrf

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