KATHMANDU: The British College (TBC) and Sagarmatha National College (SNC), sister concern of Sagarmatha Engineering College in Sanepa, Lalitpur, have signed a strategic partnership agreement where each institution will work and support each other for facilitation, development of collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship.

Sagarmatha National College currently offers the BTEC Level III in IT from Pearson Edexcel (Equivalent to Diploma in IT), which is a pathway to the UK degree.

The British College is currently providing various degree programmes affiliated with Leeds Beckett University and University of West of England. Students from SNC will be able to do their Bachelor Degree at The British College. Nepal has huge potential to be a business and IT outsourcing hub and for the western countries, as per a media release.

This agreement will help produce hundreds of high quality business and IT graduates in Nepal with a British degree which is globally recognised and valued.