CUT Annual Report 2015

ADVANCING INTERNATIONALISATION
Performance indicators: Establishing partnerships within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region; consolidating other
partnerships within the continent and in other parts of the world; enhancing partnerships through staff development programmes (master’s and
doctoral degrees) for some of the universities on the continent; increasing research collaboration with other African institutions.
Successes
Staff members at the International Office, from left: Ms
Martina Moss, Admin Coordinator; Mr Danny Bokaba,
International Student Support Services; Ms Refilwe
Moleyane, Academic Exchange Coordinator; Ms
Cecilia Sejake, International Student Advisor; and Mr
Arthur Johnson, Director: International Office.
Established in 2014, the International Office launched the International Student Association (ISA) in May 2015. CUT considers this launch an
important development towards the integration of international students into the broader CUT community. The launch was geared towards
promoting student and staff exchange, instilling internationalisation into the curriculum, and supporting the Internationalisation Strategy of the
University, approved in 2013, which calls for the globalisation of its academic offerings, amongst other objectives.
The 2015 target for international student enrolments, 444 students enrolled at CUT, against the target of 550 students. Currently, approximately
3.2% of the student body comprise international students. The institutional objective is to increase this proportion to 10% by 2020, with the
majority of these students recruited from the rest of the African continent. Inbound and outbound exchanges were doubled. Furthermore, four
CUT staff members were awarded individual staff exchanges to Ghent University, Belgium and Newcastle University, England, with another two
colleagues hosted by Uppsala University in Sweden under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Programme. Furthermore, during a recent
trip to Thailand, a delegation of the Faculty of Humanities, led by Prof. David Ngidi, signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Khon
Kaen University and Mahasarkham University respectively. Finally, Prof. Ngidi represented CUT at the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa (BRICS) University Presidents’ Forum held in Beijing, China, where he presented a paper to one of the panel sessions.
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