Visit of Rt. Hon'ble Nick Gibb - Minister of State at Department of Education (DfE), UK

Rt. Hon'ble Nick Gibb - Minister of State at Department of Education (DfE), UK visited IISER Pune on June 21, 2023. The major objectives of his visit was

• Showcase the whole school development, impact and transformative journey of schools and teachers.
• Testimonials of journey towards enhanced capacity building of ECR and improving the talent pipeline of future researchers through examples of collaboration with UK sector organisations.
• Overview of work towards UK-India collaboration on thematic areas Anti-Microbial Resistance through white papers and thought leadership publications.
• Demonstrate the work accomplished towards strengthening industry-academia linkages to promote better teaching learning and transnational research with industry linkages.

Attendees for the meeting were: Prof. Sunil S Bhagwat, Director IISER; Alison Barrett MBE, Director India, British Council; Rebecca Lindsay, International Partnership Lead South Asia, Department of Education UK; Dr. Shailendra Deolankar, Director Directorate of Higher Education; Ranjit Singh Deol IAS, Secretary School Education and Sports Department, Government of Maharashtra; Savitha Balachandran, Chief Financial Officer, TATA Technologies; Mr Sujit Dixit, CSR Head, TATA Technologies; Mr Ajit Sharma, Managing Director India & South Asia, Royal Society of Chemistry; Prof. Harinath Chakrapani, Professor of Chemistry, IISER; Dr. Sourabh Dube, Associate Professor of Physics, IISER; Prof. M.S. Santhanam, Dean, International Relations and Outreach, IISER; Prof. Srinivas Hotha, Dean, Planning and Communications, IISER; Prof. Kundan Sengupta, Associate Dean (International Relations and Outreach), IISER; Dr. Nitin Shukla Tiwari, Principal Scientist Intellectual Property Group, NCL, Pune; Dr. Neeraja Dashaputre, Principal Technical Officer - Education Academics, IISER; Nitin Tiwane, Project Manager, iRISE Programme; Shraddha Bhurkunde, Senior Teaching Associate, iRISE Programme; Sonal Thorve, Technical Officer (Education), iRISE Programme; Jessica Smith, PS to Minister of state for schools; Ivy Cabral, Senior Manager Education Partnership, British Council.

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