NEW DELHI: The HRD minister M M Pallam Raju and visiting US secretary of state John F Kerry are to co-chair India-US Higher Education Dialogue on June 25, 2013 in New Delhi. During the dialogue, the two sides will take up research and innovation partnership under Singh-Obama Knowledge Initiative, institutional partnership and skill development as well as promotion of community colleges in India and technology enabled education including massive open online courses. IIT - Bombay is entering into an MoU with Edx. The intended outcome also includes two-way students' mobility from India to USA and vice-versa. India and US will also take up linkage between industry and academia and faculty development. They are also expected to take up issues like post doctoral research and co-operation in training for the school teachers.
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