Hyderabad, Aug 21 (PTI) Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday invited the Oxford University to bring its executive education programmes, specialized research capabilities to Hyderabad and set up a centre in the city.
Reddy, who visited the 900-year-old university on Friday as part of his UK tour, held talks with Professors Maya Tudor of Blavatnik School of Government and Faisal Devji of Baliol College.
The Chief Minister outlined his government’s ‘Telangana Rising’ vision and the state’s plans to transform Hyderabad into a global education hub, a CMO release said.
K Ramakrishna Rao, former Chief Secretary and the state government’s advisor gave a detailed presentation on the opportunities available to foreign universities under the central government’s National Education Policy, with emphasis on advantages they would have in Hyderabad and Telangana, it said.
Tudor and Devji responded positively and offered several contexts for collaboration with the Telangana government, it said.
The Telangana delegation also invited the Oxford representatives to send a team for the Telangana Rising Global Summit to be organised by the state government in Hyderabad on December 7, 8 and 9 this year.
Subsequently, the Chief Minister visited the portrait of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at Somerville College, of which she was an alumna.
The portrait was gifted to the college by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in 2002.
Later in the day, the Chief Minister visited the ‘Utilita Bowl’ run by the GMR group along with Kiran Kumar Grandhi, Corporate Chairman of GMR Group.
The integrated sporting facility includes a golf course, other sporting infrastructure and a hotel.
The CM held discussions with GMR representatives and the GMR global sports unit and invited them to invest and contribute to creating world class sporting infrastructure in Telangana.
Reddy is also slated to visit the Emirates Stadium to watch an EPL match featuring current champions Arsenal and Coventry, the release said.
On August 22, he will interact with a Cambridge team and is scheduled to visit the Senate House, University of London Campus and the London Business School, it said. PTI SJR SJR ROH
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