A group of 11 students and 2 faculty members from Porto Business School, Portugal, are on an exchange tour to SDM-IMD (Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development), Mysuru, from Mar.6 to 10. SDM-IMD has arrangements with Porto University for student and faculty exchange. During the study programme, the visiting students will go through academic sessions, corporate visits, social projects as well as Yoga and Wellness sessions. The team, led by Dr. Pedro Vieira from Porto University, is seen with Dr. N.R. Parasuraman, Director, SDM-IMD and Faculty.
While these students are here on this visit, hope they do not encounter the stray dogs and take rabies home with them when they return to Porto Portugal. They also need to be screened when they go home for TB and other infectious diseases. India lives with them in their lungs and guts for a very long time!!
What is interesting is that while these Portugal students return to their city Porto, their counterpart from the Mysore university who are in Porto will try to stay in Porto permanently, citing any number of reasons, even seeking asylum saying that they are not well treated back in Mysore!!
These students should have come to Goa, we have a good university, and some of us speak Portuguese , and would have made them feel at home.
Interesting exchange of students.
While the Portuguese students come and after the period go back to their country, Indian exchange students try to stay in Portugal, refusing to go back. I have come across a few of them , claiming asylum giving the reason of caste discrimination! Al of them have stayed, hiding as they were to be deported and are still working in the black economy in Portugal.
The European countries, hence are wary of creating these exchange projects. Already, there are nearly 100,000 of students who entered England to study in their universities , dropped out and disappeared. British governments tried to convince Modi to take them back as they are illegal immigrants in England. He refused saying that it is the problem for Britain and not his!
No student who entered a Western country has gone back to India,
There is a ;poster called @John, who boasts about Indian scientists in Western countries, ignorant of the fact that these are of Indian extraction, and some were denied prospects in India, because of reservation quotas. Not a situation to be proud of , and yet @John the poster is very proud of this situation!