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Higher educational horizons
From Preston to Pyla and from Burnley to Bangkok, exciting plans are afoot to extend UCLan’s global reach.
The University’s overriding commitment is to
produce highly-motivated graduates with all the
skills required to grasp the opportunities afforded
by the global economy. Those opportunities are
about to become a step closer thanks to two
new international developments that will benefit
students based in the UK and overseas.
The plans will see the construction of multimillion
pound UCLan campuses in both Cyprus
and Thailand, constructed to the highest
UCLan specifications and providing students
with a gateway to a UK-standard Higher
Education experience.
The Cyprus development, due to open in October
2012, has been officially sanctioned by the
Cypriot Ministry of Education and Culture
through the awarding of an educational licence.
The venture will see the construction of the
first ever UK-led university campus in Cyprus.
UCLan will assume responsibility for the
operational management and academic control
of all programmes.
The campus is to be located in Pyla, an area in
the Larnaca district on the eastern part of the
island. It is envisaged that student numbers will
grow towards 5,000 within five years, while a
broad range of academic subjects will be offered,
building on UCLan’s strengths and local demand.
Of crucial importance to the University, and
setting it apart from other private educational
providers on the island, will be the establishment
of a number of distinctive research centres to
support and inform the teaching curriculum.
A broad range of academic subjects will be
offered, taught in English and building on
UCLan’s strengths and local demand. Initially,
these will be clustered in three groupings:
Business and Management, Law, Computing
and Mathematics.
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