If
a university wants to be a world-class university, at least the university must
have three major roles: (1) excellence in education of their students; (2)
research, development and dissemination of knowledge; and (3) activities
contributing to the cultural, scientific, and civic life of society. In this
article we will focus on the first one, excellence in education of our students.
How to upgrade the capacity and knowledge of students, bring international
students to university and send the students in university to abroad.
We
know that many ways to upgrade the knowledge of students, one of them is giving
lecture in their class. Teach everything about science that they want to know
and they will figure it out about what they learned and explore more. The
lecturers just show the way and the students will dig it deeper. The other way
is sending students to study abroad, to open their mind, experience new
activity, learn the culture, doing research together and much more to get. It’s
important for their future to live in society. Because when the students face
real world they not only need hard skill that they learned in class but also
they will need soft skill, like communication, leadership and others. When a
policy to send students abroad takes too much cost, there is another way. Bring
the international students to study in our university. At least more local
students will interact with the international students, exchange the art and
culture. So, the local students will feel like they live abroad. If the number
of international students increases by time then our university becomes an
international university which is one step to be world-class university.
As
a rector of this university, I will build a close relationship with many
countries and invite them to send their students to our university, and sign a
memorandum of understanding that provide a chance to send our best students to
study in their country. I will need an international affair that manage
everything about students exchange and provide any information the international students need. So this international
affair will connect the international students that want to study in our
university and local students that want to study abroad. If nowadays we provide
a place for any country to build a corner in our university like, Japanese corner,
India corner, Korean corner and many else, now we could make it in one corner
in international affairs. I will make the international affairs for many
purposes, such as for language training, intercultural study center,
administration and others.