This chapter looks at the period of internationalization in engineering education which saw Australian and New Zealand universities actively recruiting international students and universities sending staff to neighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region to deliver engineering courses and set up campuses. Internationalization started with the Colombo Plan which provided scholarships for students to study at Australian and New Zealand universities. The chapter details the University of Tasmania’s experience with students coming from Indonesia and then Vietnam in the late 1960s. Then followed recruitment visits from academics and administrators to SE Asia which resulted in Memoranda of Understanding through which UTAS admitted graduates from Malaysian and Singaporean colleges with various degrees of advanced standing according to their college record. The next and continuing initiatives were 2 + 2 programs with universities in China in which students studied a mix of local units and units taught by visiting UTAS academics. There was also a scheme for diplomates from the Australian College of Kuwait to transfer into the UTAS BEng program with up to 2 years advanced standing.

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Recruiting International Students

  • Peter Edward Doe

摘要

This chapter looks at the period of internationalization in engineering education which saw Australian and New Zealand universities actively recruiting international students and universities sending staff to neighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region to deliver engineering courses and set up campuses. Internationalization started with the Colombo Plan which provided scholarships for students to study at Australian and New Zealand universities. The chapter details the University of Tasmania’s experience with students coming from Indonesia and then Vietnam in the late 1960s. Then followed recruitment visits from academics and administrators to SE Asia which resulted in Memoranda of Understanding through which UTAS admitted graduates from Malaysian and Singaporean colleges with various degrees of advanced standing according to their college record. The next and continuing initiatives were 2 + 2 programs with universities in China in which students studied a mix of local units and units taught by visiting UTAS academics. There was also a scheme for diplomates from the Australian College of Kuwait to transfer into the UTAS BEng program with up to 2 years advanced standing.