International civil aviation university to come up in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Concordia University of Canada has decided to set up an aviation-focussed university in India's first aerospace special economic zone, coming up in Andhra Pradesh. Officials hope that the university would start offering programmes next year while the campus would come up in 2010. The proposed International Civil Aviation University (ICAU) will be developed as a centre of excellence with sister campuses in Montreal (Canada) and Toulouse (France). Dale Doreen, executive director of the International Centre for Aviation Management Education and Research at John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, told IANS they were looking for Indian partners for the university. The university, which is looking for local investors for this $40-50 million project, expects that 10,000 students would enroll for its various programmes after a few years. The foundation stone for the aerospace SEZ was laid Wednesday at India Aviation-2008, India's first conference and exhibitio...