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Jindal varsity opens centre for corporate responsibility, sustainability

Jindal varsity opens centre for corporate responsibility, sustainability

O.P. Jindal Global UniversityNew Delhi : O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) on Wednesday said it has opened a research centre dedicated to corporate responsibility and sustainability.

The centre housed in JGU in Sonipat, Haryana, aims to deliver knowledge services to higher education institutes, industry and other players in India’s development sectors.

The JGU-Centre for Excellence in Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (JGU-CECRAS) was announced during a three-day-long “Northern Conclave for Building CSR Partnerships” organised earlier this month in association with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) here.

Speaking at the conclave JGU Vice Chancellor C. Raj Kumar pointed out that the growth and evolution of the CSR model in India has not been largely due to corporate commitment to contribute to the development of the community; rather it has more to do with building a positive persona and image, including brand building.

“We need to reimagine the CSR framework for higher education. The impetus should be to translate corporate mission to societal mission. Corporations need to invest in long term social transformation,” Kumar said.

He emphasised the critical role of research in improving the quality of higher education in India and that CSR money could play an important role in augmenting research and innovation to creating the universities of the future.

Inaugurating the conference, Gyaneshwar Singh, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs said the ministry was considering an enforcement regime to make corporations in the country more responsible towards the society and environment in which they operate.

The conference brought corporations, non-profit organisations, government entities and higher education institutions on one platform.

—IANS

Jindal varsity signs MoU with Harvard on academic collaborations

Jindal varsity signs MoU with Harvard on academic collaborations

Jindal varsity signs MoU with Harvard on academic collaborationsBoston : O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Harvard University to expand their collaborations in three areas, including in student engagement through an annual teaching session at Harvard for Jindal students.

The other two areas of collaborations that the MoU opened were organising joint conferences on themes of interest to both the institutions and engaging in other research and educational activities.

The MoU was signed by JGU and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) at Harvard University on Wednesday and institutionalised their ongoing collaboration on student engagements and paved way for other opportunities of institutional engagement between the two institutions, the Sonipat, Haryana-based JGU said in a statement.

In partnership with JGU, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has been organising for the past three years a study programme on the theme of “Human Rights and Development” at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The student engagement collaboration has taken the form of an annual study abroad programme conducted at Harvard University for nearly 30 students from JGU, the statement added.

At the successful completion of the programme, the Jindal students earn academic credits and the course will get reflected in the transcript, it added.

“The steady growth of JGU has been an extraordinary development in higher education in large part because of its constant focus on excellence and its commitment to global education, with over 200 collaborations in 50 countries,” said Harvard’s Stephen Marks, who leads the programme along with JGU Vice Chancellor C. Raj Kumar.

“This MoU will facilitate Harvard’s engagement with JGU in this commitment to excellence and global education,” Marks added.

Future conferences that are being considered under the MoU include issues that are at the intersection of human rights, development, law, public policy, public health and governance.

The Jindal Global Law School and the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy will be the principal partners to collaborate with the Harvard Chan School in these future conferences, JGU said.

The MoU also opens the way for joint research projects, joint training and capacity-building programmes and joint publications in the field of human rights, development and public health, JGU said.

“The collaboration with Harvard is an example as to what a young Indian university with a vision for promoting excellence can accomplish and indeed offer fantastic opportunities to its students and faculty,” JGU VC Raj Kumar said.

Naveen Jindal, founding Chancellor and JGU benefactor, said: “I am most delighted to learn about the collaboration that JGU has established with Harvard in relation to education and research. This achievement is a testament to the passion, commitment and dedication of our faculty and students.”

He added that the current year has been great for JGU as it had been given the “status of an autonomous institution by the Ministry of Human Resource Development” for having “broken into the QS BRICS Rankings 2018 and recognised as one of the top 250-300 universities among the 9,000 universities in the BRICS region”.

—IANS

Jindal varsity opens centre for corporate responsibility, sustainability

Jindal varsity’s international affairs students shine in job market

O.P. Jindal Global UniversitySonipat (Haryana) : Turning a common perception on its head, international affairs students of O.P. Jindal Global University here have shown that pursuing a so-called “conventional” course can also open several doors of recruitment including in multinational companies, think tanks and international NGOs.

This year, Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), Care India and Development Alternatives led the recruitment for the students of the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA), the university said in a statement on Monday.

The corporate and non-profit institutions which recruited JSIA’s students include KPMG, Grant Thornton, Justice and Care, Deloitte, CREA, ESSAR Foundation, CRY, Godrej Culture Lab, Akshaya Patra Foundation, Atma Foundation, Sattva Consulting, The Centre for Internet and Society, and Global Trust.

“In the past, the study of international affairs was seen as leading only to civil service jobs or higher education ending in academic jobs,” said C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University.

“JSIA has diversified the field significantly and showed the path to a variety of full-time positions for its graduating students,” he added.

JSIA combines the scholarly weights of three inter-related disciplines — international relations, international law and international business.

“We expect several domestic and international non-profit and for-profit entities to hire from our future graduating batch as several organisations have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with our university for offering internships to our students,” Sreeram Chaulia, Dean of JSIA.

More than 40 organisations have led JSIA to achieve 95 per cent internship placements in diversified fields this year, the statement said.

—IANS

‘Legal education in India has transformed’

‘Legal education in India has transformed’

Law, National Law SchoolsSonepat : Legal education in India has transformed from its early origins as a professional practice of law in courts to an autonomous discipline of law that fulfils a broader set of social, economic and educational goals and aspirations, the founding Vice Chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University C. Raj Kumar said at a function to mark the 200th year of the Harvard Law School.

“The evolution of legal education in India has raised the standards of the legal profession and has further accentuated the impact of economic globalisation in a range of legal services. This trend will continue as the new generation of law schools in India such as the National Law Schools and a few select not-for-profit private law schools such as the Jindal Global Law School are raising academic standards, providing research opportunities to faculty and students and contributing to the knowledge creation and publications, while training the next generation of global lawyers” a statement issued here quoted him as saying.

Legal education and legal profession in India need to drive the agenda for social, economic, and institutional reforms. The globalisation of legal profession has impacted the nature and context of legal practice in India but a vast number of law schools and lawyers are not prepared to effectively address this change, he added.

Taking the Jindal Global Law School as a case study, Kumar articulated the vision for global legal education and how developing countries in Asia and Africa need to play a leadership role in the establishment of standards and participation in providing high quality legal services.

“But unlike the law schools in the developed world, legal education in Asia and Africa will have a strong dimension of social engineering and seeking the role of law as an instrument of social change. It will need to address issues of systemic and institutionalised forms of injustices perpetrated due to corruption, discrimination and authoritarianism.

“Legal education and the legal profession is called upon to make democracies function effectively on the basis of the rule of law and good governance so that the constitutional goals do not remain as unachievable rhetoric but become a reality through ensuring greater degree of transparency and accountability. This is a particularly significant role that law ought to play in countries in Asia and Africa such as India,” Kumar noted.

Kumar, a Rhodes Scholar and an alumnus of Harvard Law School, was the only lawyer and legal scholar from India to be invited to speak on special occasion October 26-27.

JGU was the only Indian university and Jindal Global Law School the only Indian law school at the event, which witnessed participation of over 250 speakers from around the world.

—IANS