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PUNE: Savitribai Phule Pune University signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indian Institute of Gems and Jewellery, Mumbai for offering a 3-year Bachelor of Arts in Gems & Jewellery Designing at the SPPU campus on Wednesday.
The MoU was signed in the presence of SPPU vice chancellor Nitin Karmalkar, IIGJ Mumbai Chairman Kirit Bhansali, and others.
The official release from SPPU called the collaboration the first step in providing formal education and training in this fast growing sector.
The courses to be offered to students by the SPPU/IIGJ combine shall be a highly skill-based, career-oriented and R & D focused programme. It is especially designed to enable and empower young professionals with a passion for jewellery designing, arts and craft to handle every aspect of the jewellery trade in the future. IIGJ Mumbai’s contribution to this collaboration shall be in sharing with SPPU Pune more than 26 well-trained and experienced faculty members, a state-of-the-art manufacturing workshop and a 50-station digital design software laboratory offering the latest technology. IIGJ takes pride in nurturing its students to self-discover their own space in a jewellery career, said the release. Source From : Times Of India
