Nadhim Zahawi has praised the UK’s sturdy ties with Europe in greater training as he met the president of Portugal.
The Training Secretary visited Imperial Faculty London alongside the president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the nation’s prime minister, Antonio Costa.
Throughout the go to, they explored the college’s knowledge observatory, the place they noticed photos of the Mars Rover, science laboratories and Imperial’s ocean wave basin – the place completely different waves are simulated as a part of analysis into renewable power.
Training Secretary Nadhim Zahawi and the President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (Victoria Jones/PA)
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Mr Zahawi thanked the president for the go to, including: “For these of you that don’t know, I’m additionally a fan of Manchester United – in fact the good Ronaldo tried to hold us this season however sadly, they weren’t in a position to do it simply on their very own – right here is hoping for subsequent 12 months.”
He stated it was an “absolute honour” to be a part of the delegation and praised the “unbelievable work” carried out at Imperial Faculty and stated the tour was “extremely informative, particularly for a chemical engineer like myself so you’ll hear many tales on the dispatch field in days and weeks to return”.
Training Secretary Nadhim Zahawi with the president of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa throughout a go to to Imperial Faculty London (Victoria Jones/PA)
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He praised the analysis collaboration between Portuguese college students at Imperial and stated worldwide greater training was one of many Authorities’s priorities.
He added: “I’m extraordinarily proud that nearly 2,000 Portuguese nationals presently work within the UK greater training ecosystem and there are over 8,400 Portuguese college students finding out right here within the UK.”
He stated that worldwide college students deliver “contemporary concepts and new views to a bunch nation like ours and naturally right here we wish to encourage as many younger individuals as potential among the advantages of our incredible greater training”.
Mr Zahawi stated the Authorities’s worldwide HE technique aimed to extend the variety of worldwide college students within the UK to 600,000 in 2030, however that this ambition had been met 10 years early, with greater than 605,000 college students in UK universities in 2020/21.
He wished the president “Feliz dia de Portugal” which was held on June 10 and alluded to the 650-year-anniversary of the Treaty of Tagilde between Portugal and Britain, which he stated was the oldest diplomatic alliance on the earth.
He stated this got here at a time when it had “by no means been so essential that nations got here collectively in solidarity and friendship in order that we are able to remedy challenges collectively constructively and I hope peacefully on our continent of Europe”.
Mr de Sousa stated Portugal had despatched a number of tons of “of Cristian Ronaldos to your scientific group and I’m certain a lot of them will assist you numerous in your nation, and they’re the very best of our greatest”.
He stated the alliance between the 2 nations was not “an alliance simply of the previous however of the longer term”.
He informed the PA information company: “Science is transnational, it’s international, and in a means in a interval of conflict and of lack of dialogue, of struggle between international and regional powers, science is above – that’s so essential to have one thing that’s above these wars, constructing peace and responding to the wants of the worldwide inhabitants.”
“That’s the mission of science, of information, of training. To not create wars however to beat all of the fights and the wars and the disputes on the earth.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
