Toronto, Dec 9 (IANS) A Canadian educational company has announced it was licensing its brand for opening new educational institutions in India.
CIBT Education Group Inc., which runs business, technical and language colleges in Australia, Canada, China, Jamaica, New Zealand, Holland, South Korea, the US, Britain and Vietnam, has signed an agreement with Vancouver-based Sprott Shaw group to brand its name for new institutions in India.

Sprott-Shaw, a global post secondary institution with 22 campuses, has been chosen as a partner as it already has a presence in India.

Under the agreement, the CIBT Group will license the brand ‘CIBT School of Business’ to be opened in many states in India, a statement by the group in Vancouver said.

Under the licence, Sprott Shaw will establish several business, vocational and language training schools in India, the statement said.

Sprott-Shaw will “offer selected programmes at campuses in India, market the programme and recruit students from India to Canada, and establish credit transfer programmes among India and other CIBT and Sprott-Shaw partner campuses worldwide”.

CIBT Group president and CEO Toby Chu said: “We are very pleased with this latest licensing arrangement as part of our global expansion strategy to increase our economies of scale, expand our network, and extend our outreach to emerging economies around the world.

“A global distribution network enables us to export our western education content to overseas campuses while attracting international students to study at our domestic campuses to gain experience learning abroad.”

The CIBT Group say it offers Western and Chinese accredited business and management degree programmes, IT programmes, travel and tourism programmes and career/vocational programmes through its network of campuses and academic partnerships around the world.