Newsletter for Indo Newsletter for Indo - - Canadian Study Centre Canadian Study Centre Message from Vice Message from Vice- Chancellor Chancellor Canada – A Partner Country India’s first Prime Minister visited Canada on Oct 22-26, 1949 and on Dec 22-23, 1956. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru had excellent relations with Mr. Louis St. Laurent , Mr. John Diefenbaker and Mr. Lester B. Pearson, the Prime Ministers of Canada during 1948 -57, 57-63 and 63-68 respectively. At the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summits of 2011 and 2013, Canada was a Partner country. In 2011, a large delegation of Canadians from various fields had come to Gujarat. Since there were many persons from Higher Education in the delegation, GTU invited the Canadian delegation so that they could meet GTU’s Deans and Principals. Earlier the undersigned had met the President of University of Alberta (UoA) on November 11, 2010 in Mumbai. Thereafter from 17 th June to 30 th July 2011, 34 GTU students led by a Faculty member visited UoA for a summer camp at its School of Business Studies. Mr Paul Miller of GeoGlobal Resources, Calgary had underwritten all the expenses incurred by the School of Business Studies for the Summer Camp. The students had a wonderful experience at UoA. Volume—I Date—1st June 2013 In this issue : Topic Page No. The Beginning Joining hands with World Class University Academic Excellence Away from India but not from Indian culture Photo Gallery Canada Delegates at GTU 4 5 6 7 8 9
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Newsletter for IndoNewsletter for Indo--Canadian Study CentreCanadian Study Centre
Message from ViceMessage from Vice--ChancellorChancellor
Canada – A Partner Country
India’s first Prime Minister visited Canada on Oct 22-26, 1949
and on Dec 22-23, 1956. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru had excellent
relations with Mr. Louis St. Laurent , Mr. John Diefenbaker and Mr.
Lester B. Pearson, the Prime Ministers of Canada during 1948 -57,
57-63 and 63-68 respectively.
At the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summits of 2011 and
2013, Canada was a Partner country. In 2011, a large delegation of
Canadians from various fields had come to Gujarat. Since there were
many persons from Higher Education in the delegation, GTU invited
the Canadian delegation so that they could meet GTU’s Deans and
Principals.
Earlier the undersigned had met the President of University
of Alberta (UoA) on November 11, 2010 in Mumbai. Thereafter from
17th June to 30th July 2011, 34 GTU students led by a Faculty
member visited UoA for a summer camp at its School of Business
Studies. Mr Paul Miller of GeoGlobal Resources, Calgary had
underwritten all the expenses incurred by the School of Business
Studies for the Summer Camp. The students had a wonderful
experience at UoA.
Volume—I
Date—1st June 2013
In this issue :
Topic Page No.
The Beginning
Joining hands with
World Class University
Academic Excellence
Away from India but not
from Indian culture
Photo Gallery
Canada Delegates
at GTU
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5
6
7
8
9
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After the students returned back, Dr. Edy Wong, International Director, Center for
International Business Studies, School of Business, UoA visited GTU on 28th July 2011.
On 29th July, he delivered a talk on ‘MBA Education – a comparative perspective from a
Canadian’1 at CKSV Institute of Management, Vadodara. On 21st October 2011, GTU was
able to have Prof Ed Wong on a second visit, coordinated by Professor Bhavin Pandya.
During the visit, the undersigned asked Dr. Wong about the feasibility of sending UoA’ s
students to GTU for a semester, wherein they could study Gandhian Ethics, Asian
Businesses etc. Dr Wong said he could send some under graduate students to India, since
students of UoA’a Post-graduate programme did not visit other countries. Dr. Wong also
said that UOA students might visit I.I.Sc. Bangalore and GTU to study some industries in
India. Prof. Bhavin Pandya agreed to coordinate the activity on behalf of GTU while Dr.
Wong said he will discuss the issues with Dean of School of Business and revert with
further progress.
On 1st December 2011, Professor Joan White, the Associate Dean at the School
of Business, UoA visited GTU. On Thursday, 26th April 2012, at Delhi, Professor Ed
Wong discussed with the undersigned about the possibility of a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between GTU UoA.
On 11th October 2012, an MoU between UoA and GTU was signed during the visit
of Dr. Indira Samarasekera, President & Vice Chancellor of UoA. An Indo-Canadian
Study Center was also inaugurated on the same day by Dr. Samarasekera, in the
presence of many businessmen and industrialists from Indo—Canadian enterprises of
Gujarat and Mr Jagat Shah, Chairman Indo Canadian Business Chamber and Mr. Vishal
Acharya.
Dr. Kalpdrum Passi, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science of
Laurentian University (LU), Canada worked with the GTU team to facilitate the visit of
111 GTU students and two faculty members for a Summer Study Camp during 2012. Dr.
Ramesh Subramanian, Director of the Bharati School of Engineering at LU and Dr. Vasu
Apanna, Dean – Faculty of Science and Engineering, visited GTU on Feb 18-19, 2013 for
discussions with the Deans at GTU. Dr. Passi visited GTU on 11th December 2012 and
on 18th May 2013 for facilitating the visit of GTU students to LU in 2013.
In addition to all these exchanges, some of the doctoral students at GTU are being
Co-Supervised by some distinguished Professors from Canada.
As a part of GTU’s Global MBA program, during the academic year 2012-13, 105
students studied and prepared Reports on Canada as a part of the curriculum on Country
Studies. When on 6th February 2013, Mr. Greg Selinger, the Premier of Manitoba, a
province of Canada, visited Gujarat, members of his delegation were very pleased to
inter-act with the students at GTU.
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His team members Dr. Digvir S. Jayas, Mr. Terry Duguid, Ms. Janice Y. Lederman, Ms.
Cheryl Prokopanko5 visited GTU on both 6th and on 7th for discussions about
collaborations between GTU and the Higher Educational and research institutions in
Manitoba. 1
The Indo-Canadian Study Center of the GTU’s School of Global Studies is a result
of the exchanges, described above. Now the Center should work to intensify and catalyze
collaborations between GTU and Canada. GTU’s School of Global Business Studies has
been established recently. As we build our activities and our research work, it may be
useful to look at a snapshot of activities of a similar Centre at another University:
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada has been publishing excellent research work
on India. Besides during 2011, the Canada-India Center at Carleton University has done
the following activities:
Organization of a roundtable discussion on the growth of India with Canadian Business
Leaders; Mr. Anand Sharma, India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry was present.
Hosting of delegations from Gujarat, India’s nuclear power and geospatial
commissions.
Visits of Dr. Sukhadeo Thorat, the then Chairman of UGC and Dr. Rajagopala
Chidambaram,
Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.
Signing partnership agreements with nearly a dozen Indian Universities.
Establishing formal relationships with Indian businesses and organizations like Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research.
In collaboration with Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, DFAIT3, AUCC4 and the
Government of India, holding a Canada-India Innovation Summit with ISTP Canada2 (June
20-22 2011) with Mr Sam Pitroda and many other distinguished persons from India and a
Canada-India Education Summit (June 17-18 2011), with about 20 Vice-Chancellors from
Indian Universities.
GTU is a large University. When its 11,265 students of MBA and about 750 faculty
members devote themselves to studies and research, the world will start looking at the
example of GTU’s work and its Global MBA program will start attracting excellent stu-
dents and scholars from across the globe. As the School of Global Studies builds up its
research, it will be able to host and inter-act with scholars, business leaders and policy-
makers from the governments of Canada and the whole of the world.
Dr. Akshai Aggarwal Saturday, 1st June 2013
References 1A report of the program is available at http://www.cksvim.edu.in/images/stories/docs/talk_dr_edy_wong.pdf. The photo-gallery is available at http://
cksvim.edu.in/images/stories/docs/guest_lecture_dr_edy_wong.pdf. 2International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada (ISTPCanada) 3Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) 4Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) 5Dr. Digvir S. Jayas V.P. (Research & International) Univ of Manitoba; Mr. Terry Duguid, Director, Northern Sustainable Prosperity Initiative; Ms. Janice Y.