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Dr Alice Coffey & Ms Carol Condon visit India on behalf of the School of Nursing & Midwifery
Dr Alice Coffey, Ms Carol Condon, Gagan Saini, Annie Thomas
Dr Coffey & Ms Condon visited India form April 18th – April 25th 2015. The areas visited were Bangalore and Cochin in Kerala. The purpose of the visit was three fold: To learn about Nursing in
India, to build research collaboration links with Nursing faculty and to promote our post graduate programmes to interested students.
During the trip we visited Colleges of Nursing where we met with both students and staff and had opportunities to discuss nursing in Ireland and India highlighting similarities and differences. We had a successful visit to the Rajiv Gandhi University in Bangalore where we had preliminary talks with the Vice Chancellor regarding development of PhD programmes. We also visited a number of English languages colleges where we had opportunities to promote Ireland and particularly UCC & SONM as a destination for quality education programmes. Everywhere we were received warmly and enthusiastically. Over the past 2 years we have welcomed 15 students from India to study in the School of Nursing & Midwifery and following this successful visit we are confident that we can increase these numbers for the coming academic year. Given our busy schedule we had a very short time to sample the culture however we found India it to be an amazing place with friendly hospitable people and very busy cities roaring with traffic. India has it all and we look forward to an opportunity to return.