‘INDIA'S HIGHER EDUCATION ASSUMES PRACTICAL DIMENSION'

Walter J Lindner, German Ambassador to India, was inaugurating Steag Centre for Smart City Technologies on the RSET’s campus

Higher education in India is transforming into a more practical application of knowledge, enabling the country to make fast and giant strides in technology, according to Walter J Lindner, German Ambassador to India.

“Back in Germany, learning is structured. Here you have a stronger emphasis on innovation. Thus a good combination of talent and encouragement. Who knows, the next Nobel Prize could be from this centre,” he remarked, inaugurating a state-of-the-art facility that German power major Steag set up at Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology (RSET) in Kochi, recently.

“It is excellent you have now got a setup where one can convert a range of ideas into prototypes. Of course, you have to experiment,” the top diplomat said in his address after opening the Steag Centre for Smart City Technologies on the RSET’s campus.