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• The First Australia India Education and Skill Council (AIESC) meeting is set to be held at IIT Gandhinagar. 
• The AIESC, earlier the Australian India Education Council (AIEC), is a bi-national body established in 2011 to guide the strategic direction of the education, training and research partnerships between the two countries. 
• The scope of this forum was enhanced in alignment with the national priorities of both countries to bring focus on promoting internationalisation, two-way mobility and collaboration in the domains of education as well as the skill ecosystem.
• This is for the first time that education and skilling is being brought under the same institutional forum. 

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