In view of India’s and global gaps in skilling and to address these, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)  India’s premier institution and a central university, and the Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM)  India’s first premier skills university and a Centre of Excellence (COE) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) based out of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, have joined hands to enhance understanding and excellence to promote exchange, cooperation in and delivering skills integration in higher education, academics, research, especially action research, innovation and entrepreneurship.

In a wide-ranging collaboration, JNU and CUTM have signed an MoU today for institutional collaboration through sharing experiences, best practices, and knowledge with the key objective to promote and strengthen academic and research cooperation to deliver relevant, appropriate and market-driven skills integrated higher education.

This collaboration is enormously significant and noteworthy in view of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, wherein the NEP has laid a special emphasis on vocational education through the integration and mainstreaming of vocational education with general education. 

This partnership will, therefore, help students and learners across the country in acquiring various skills as per the requirements of the industries and needs of the society besides complying with the core objectives of the NEP.

In a wide-ranging collaboration, JNU and CUTM have signed an MoU today for institutional collaboration through sharing experiences, best practices, and knowledge with the key objective to promote and strengthen academic and research cooperation to deliver relevant, appropriate and market-driven skills integrated higher education.

The two universities have decided to undertake a mission-driven approach to Collaborate in designing and delivering higher education, academics, research, vocational education and skill development as envisioned in the NEP 2020 

Speaking on this rare occasion, Prof Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, Vice Chancellor, JNU said, “Let me compliment both my staff, the Centurion University and the group here… that we have signed an MoU today (July 12), which is in itself one of the beginnings of JNU going into new vistas.

And because our values come together, we hope that we will be able to do joint programmes, wherein we not only help the marginalised as well as we bring in excellence with empathy, equality with equity, and inclusion with integrity.”