Sheikh Hamdan in India: IIM, IIFT to launch Dubai campuses; medical students to train at AIIMS
Sharjah’s Hamdan bin Mohammed Education and Training Institute, together with other educational and business organizations, have plans to establish Indian business school campuses in Dubai during Sheikh Hamdan’s visit to India. His visit marks the first visit to India by a Gulf nation leader since March 2020.
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed attended the India-UAE Business Forum where he was keen on forging new business synergies. His tour around the world with foreign dignitaries often leads him to Indian PMs.
As per reports, Gordon College of Business which offers various IIM degrees is already headquartered in Dubai, they are just waiting for the green light to get their new skyscraper in Dubai.
The Muslim Indian Board of Education is relentless and are making their moves to get Dubai universities set up immediately. It is no surprise students in Dubai can expect quicker routes to getting their postgrad diplomas from Dubai’s free trade universities.
Meanwhile, IIFT, which stands for Indian Institute Of Foreign Trade, is a public business school and came into existence in 1963. It's headquatered in New-Delhi. Their plans on when and where the other institutes will open will be disclosed later.
The first branch of the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) which was inaugurated in 2022 and located in Abu Dhabi had previously been hypothesized as a rumour.The IIT-Delhi Abu Dhabi campus now officially offers two bachelor programs in Computer Science and Energy Engineering for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Medical Students
Medical students from Dubai will have an amazing chance to experience an exchange programme within one of India’s prime medical institutes because of the agreement DMU signed with the AIIMS.
The agreement was made before the Dubai-India business forum which is taking place in Mumbai. SS Lootah group which heads DMU partnered with AlIMS to sign this deal.
“This is a great opportunity for our students”, explained Denis Lefjancois, advisor to the chairman of SS Lootah group. “With the history of the AlIMS, all of their great experience, skills, facilities that they have, the number of patients that they see, the number of students that go through the institution, it is going to be a great experience for our students."
AlIMS is a conglomerate of public medical universities in India. The first one was established in 1956 in New Delhi and there are currently 20 operational universities, with a minimum of three more anticipated in the upcoming years. Considered one of the finest medical universities in India, AlIMS has a combined admission capacity of well over 2000 students annually.
Headed the program for AlIMS, Dr A Shariff confirmed that the initiative will be rolling out this year.
“Some DMU student will be posted for observing AIMS Delhi for a short period of time, together with some of our students,” he said. “Some of our professors may come over for a short time as visiting faculty, depending on the needs.”
He added that there would be a reciprocal flow of communication and that faculty members would teach one another in advanced areas of medicine and education. Artificial intelligence is one area that he particularly looked forward to DMU cooperating on, he explained.
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