Higher Education Cooperation' NMMU needs for mobility

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Higher Education Cooperation. NMMU needs for
mobility

• Dr Nico Jooste- Director International Education

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Reciprocity

• Reciprocus returning the same way.
• The exchange programs are managed in such a way
  that the benefit is not only for the individual
  student but for the institution as a whole
• Due to the financially disadvantaged nature of
  the NMMU student body, incoming and outgoing
  exchange programs have as their main focus to
  create a diversified international experience at
  home experience

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Rationale for exchange programmes

• The internationalisation of NMMU envisaged that
  exchange programmes will prepare the NMMU student
  to
• know how to relate new knowledge to what is
  already known
• be able to read the signals of an unfamiliar
  situation, interpret its elements and relate them
  to each other
• understand the process of cultural interaction
  and be able to discern differences and
  similarities between cultures, including
  differences within similarities and vice versa
• be able to communicate with diverse groups
• Be able to adjust to an environment without
  losing ones identity and compromising ones
  values.

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Expectations?

• Of strategic importance. Improved student and
  staff mobility Knowledge transfer in both
  directions.
• The composition of the South African Student
  body.
• Academic reality.
• Language competency.
• Financial need v/s real costs.
• Student preparation.

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Concluding remarks

• NMMU have moved from the clear understanding of
  it being returning the same way to equality of
  effort.
• Universities and its internationalisation
  activities have not escaped the influences of
  market forces.
• The sending and receiving of exchange students is
  seen as part of the process of developing an
  Internationalised University and is not managed
  as a single event on the Internationalisation
  calendar.
• It is not ethical for a University to send
  students on an exchange program if they will
  suffer financially and thus not maximise the
  academic and cultural experience.