VPM initiated a scheme of educational tours of Indian teachers to UK since 2004. After conducting a few educational tours for teachers successfully VPM started conducting special tours for Indian students since 2007. AIER, after its formal establishment, took over both these activities and involved parents along with teachers and students in the tour.
The participants chosen for the tour are given academic inputs acquainting them with the places of visit in Oxford, Cambridge and London. These tours have a perfect blend of academic as well as social interactions. So far more than 100 practicing teachers, more than 90 school/ college students and 40 parents have been benefited by this scheme. This activity of AIER has become quite popular and there is good response from teachers, students and parents from different parts of India to join it. It has, therefore, become an annual activity of AIER. For convenience these tours are conducted in summer vacations preferably in the month of May.
After every visit Dr. Sudhakar Agarkar, Dean AIER has been writing articles in Disha describing the experiences gained at different places of visits in UK. VPM has brought out the compilation of these articles in the form of book in Marathi entitled “Educational Tour of Oxford and Cambridge”.
Indian teachers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London (June 2005)
Session on Use of IT in school education at Oxford (June 2005)
Indian students at the Botanic Garden in Oxford (May 2015)
Indian group on the roads of Oxford (May 2016)
Indian students in front of Trinity College, Cambridge (May 2015)
Indian students experiencing punting through Can River in Cambridge (May 2015)
A group photograph at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (May 2016)
A group photograph near India House, London (May 2016)
A group photograph on the bac side of Kings’ College, Cambridge (May 2017)
Indian group at the Greenwich Observatory (May 2017)
Indian group at the British Library, London (May 2017)
