The Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, (CUPB) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Worcester, United Kingdom, to promote academic cooperation. The objective of the MoU is to promote collaboration in joint research, project proposals, faculty and student exchange programmes.

CUPB vice-chancellor Prof RK Kohli presided over the ceremony. University of Worcester Prof Jaswinder K Dhillon was the special guest on the event. As a part of the MoU, experts of both these universities would mentor each other in designing course curriculum with an objective to promote internationalisation of curricular in higher education.