Re: MoU Between AIT and IIUI

This is of course a good news but let me ask a question: what happens after signing such MoUs in terms of follow up, implications, capacity building, transfer of knowledge/technology, mutual cooperation and faculty exchange?

Over the last few years we have read about a considerable number of MoUs signed between IIUI and several other universities and academic institutions but we could not see any thing happening pursuant to these understandings. It’s the time for IIUI administration to devise and formulate a policy (for those who don’t know there, a policy is “a line of argument rationalizing the course of action”!!) about such initiatives through an active engagement of faculties so the real stakeholders—the faculty members-- should know about the potential opportunities and academic linkages. At the moment, it is no more than an administration to administration activity which has no academic benefit altogether. A third party evaluation of all MoUs signed by IIUI can adequately establish this point. If we really want something out of academic linkages, let the faculty come and identify their partners and the bosses should keep themselves away for a while! Let’s try bottom-up approach in some cases too instead of ever-greening top-down initiatives.