EUROPEAN UNION RESERVES 900 SEATS FOR INDIAN STUDENTS

Europe is fast becoming a popular destination for Asian students interested in studying abroad. Now, there is some good news for Indian students applying to masters and doctoral programs in Europe.

Even as Britain plans to make it difficult for overseas students - including those from commonwealth countries like India - to get visas for studying in universities in the UK, good news has come from Brussels for Indian post-graduate students wanting to go for higher studies in Europe.

The European Commission is encouraging Asians, especially Indian students, to study in one of hundreds of European universities that have joined the European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme.

The European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme officially launched last year, aims at fostering cooperation and mobility in the field of higher education and promoting the EU as a centre of excellence in learning around the world.

The India Window of the Erasmus Mundus programme is being provided with Euros 33 million over a period of three years.