DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 15 (MExN): The Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio, will be departing New Delhi for the United Kingdom on 16th October, 2011. The Chief Minister has been invited to deliver a lecture at the Queens University Belfast in the UK. He is being accompanied by Power Minister, Doshehe Y Sema, Agriculture Minister, Dr. Chumben Murry and Press Secretary to Chief Minister, Abu Metha. The Chief Minister and his team are also scheduled to pay official visits to veterinary and animal husbandry facilities and food processing and bioscience centres during the visit. This was informed in a press note issued by the Press Secretary to the CM.
According to the press note, this is the first time that a Chief Minister of the State will be delivering a lecture at an international university in the United Kingdom. The Queens University Belfast has more than 150 years of history and was founded as Queen’s College in 1845 and it became a university in its own right in 1908. With more than 17,000 students and 3,500 staff, it is a dynamic and diverse institution, a magnet for inward investment, a patron of the arts and a global player in areas ranging from cancer studies to sustainability, and from pharmaceuticals to creative writing, the press note informed.
The University has won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education on four occasions – for world-class achievement in green chemistry, environmental research, palaeoecology and law. A hat-trick of prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards further recognises the University’s contribution to society. Further it was informed that Queen’s received the award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts in 2008, was awarded the title of the UK’s Entrepreneurial University of the Year in 2009, and won the Outstanding Engineering Research Team of the Year category in 2010.
According to the press note, this is the first time that a Chief Minister of the State will be delivering a lecture at an international university in the United Kingdom. The Queens University Belfast has more than 150 years of history and was founded as Queen’s College in 1845 and it became a university in its own right in 1908. With more than 17,000 students and 3,500 staff, it is a dynamic and diverse institution, a magnet for inward investment, a patron of the arts and a global player in areas ranging from cancer studies to sustainability, and from pharmaceuticals to creative writing, the press note informed.
The University has won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education on four occasions – for world-class achievement in green chemistry, environmental research, palaeoecology and law. A hat-trick of prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards further recognises the University’s contribution to society. Further it was informed that Queen’s received the award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts in 2008, was awarded the title of the UK’s Entrepreneurial University of the Year in 2009, and won the Outstanding Engineering Research Team of the Year category in 2010.
