Jamshedpur, Feb. 8: First it was tie up with Bristol, now yet another group of Jamshedpur schools plans to go global.

In a recent move, the city-based Kerala Public Schools have decided to enter into a partnership with Global Indian International School, one of the renowned chain of international schools with branches in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand and India.

Formed by Singapore-based non-profit organisation, the Global Indian Foundation (GIF), the school provides education in different countries to Indians and other students from other countries .

Global Indian Foundation is led and advised by people like Narayana Murthy of Infosys, Abid Hussain, the former ambassador to the US.

Global Indian Foundation was co-founded by L.M. Singhvi, the former Indian high commissioner to the UK, C.S. Dharmadhikari, the former justice of Bombay High Court, Chandu Borde, the former chairman of BCCI and Atul Temurnikar, the former country manager of IBM, Singapore.

“A team from Global Indian International School headed by their principal, Anju Aditya, was in Jamshedpur a few days back. It was during that time she visited our school and offered us the partnership,” said Shanta Vaidyanathan, the principal of Kerala Public School, Kadma.

One of the premier education bodies in Jamshedpur, the Kerala Public Trust runs six Kerala Public Schools in Jamshedpur and one in Orissa, Kerala Samajam Model School in Sakchi and six project schools for underprivileged children both in and around Jamshedpur.

Having received the offer from one of the largest chain of international schools, the authorities of Kerala Public Schools wasted no time and decided to go in for the tie-up as soon as possible.

“This is a golden opportunity that students from our schools will visit schools in other countries and will be part of global learning. We want to tie up with Global Indian International School as soon as possible,” said Vaidyanathan.

Once finalised, the new alliance would entitle students and teachers for exchange programmes, sharing of teaching methodology and learning practices.

“Global Indian International School said it would soon formulate a strategy and get back to us on what would be the probable areas on which both the school groups would now work jointly,” said Vijayam Kartha, the director of the Kerala Public Trust.

A group of students from Kerala Public School, Kadma would soon leave for Global Indian International School, Singapore, as part of the student exchange programme.

Plans are also afoot to include all the project schools run for underprivileged and tribal children in the city and the rural areas.

“Since all these schools are part of the Kerala Public Trust we are looking forward to include everybody in the project. Details like how many teachers and students and what will be the core area of study are yet to be finalised,” said Kartha.