This will be the broadest and most favourable recognition agreement India has signed with another country and will enhance student mobility between both countries.
The higher education sector had a fraught relationship with the former government, which declined to include universities in the JobKeeper scheme in the pandemic.
The crash killed 42-year-old mother Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son Loïc Chevalier, who were travelling in a passenger vehicle struck in the collision.
