India and Australia will set up India-Australia Education Council to bring together government, academia, business and industry of both the countries and to strengthen bilateral collaboration in the education sector. This has been decided in meeting between India’s HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Julia Gillard in Melbourne during Sibal’s recent visit to Australia.
Decision has also been taken to organize a Joint Faculty Development Programme and Inter University Convention of Vice Chancellors together with the expansion of the existing Education Exchange Programme. Three MoUs have also been signed between Association of Indian Universities and Universities Australia, Central Board of Secondary Education and Australian Council of Education Research and The Energy Research Institute (TERI) and Deakin University.