University partnerships provide a huge amount of opportunities for students and staff alike. Along with research opportunities and cultural awareness, institutions can offer international experiences, including study abroad programs and staff exchanges. In terms of teaching, benefits include curriculum development and degrees formed in collaboration with partner institutions. The National University of Science and Technology (NU) believes that forming international university partnerships helps student recruitment in two main ways.
For local students, the university partnership offers the opportunity to travel internationally via any exchange programs which may have been set up, and vice versa for students at partnered universities. It also enables universities to better understand the culture of other nations, thereby facilitating their marketing success there.
NU believes that the international partnership with other institutions enables the University to lead its sectors with the most diverse, highest-attaining student bodies, and achieve their international ambitions. Besides that, international partnerships enable the university to provide opportunities to attract a more diverse student body, and to promote greater mobility of staff and students. These partnerships also have the potential to make an impact on curriculum development, collaborative teaching programmes and research networks.
The National University of Science and Technology (NU) has developed a wide range of policies, procedures, guidelines and programmes that foster links with relevant industry partners, so as to strengthen existing teaching and research programmes. These also aim to ensure that graduates are equipped with the skills that the industry needs. It also helps to provide graduates with deep knowledge and relevant work experience in their respective areas of study. The National University has extensive internship programmes with industry players to provide hands-on and on-the-job training as a complement to academic training.
The University also plays an important role in bridging the needs of industry with the outcome of research. These industrial collaborations form the key component of a research-intensive technological university and ensure that research activities maintain their societal and industry relevance.
The National University has a wide range of local partners in the country ranging from institutions to industry thus enabling it to expose its students to have hands-on experience and gain all the relevant skills within the industry and ensure highly skilled graduates who are well prepared to serve the needs of the country and the region.
