A visit by the Director of the University of Newcastle, Australia
On November 26th, Associate Professor Seamus Fagan, the Director of the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre at The University of Newcastle, Australia, paid a visit to our university.
The University of Newcastle, Australia is one of Kumamoto University’s partner institutions, with which we entered into a university-level exchange agreement in 1986. Under the agreement, Kumamoto University has sent a total of 90 students to The University of Newcastle, Australia as of the 2011 academic year.
Moreover, since the 2004 academic year, students from our university have travelled to Newcastle for two weeks during their spring vacation to attend an ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students) course at the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre. As of the 2011 academic year, 68 of our students have taken up this opportunity.
During the visit, Associate Professor Fagan spoke with Lecturer Masden and the staff at the Center for Globalization, with whom he exchanged views on the current situation at both universities and the possibility of further university-level exchange hereafter.
Associate Professor Fagan also took the opportunity to speak with Katherine Marie King, an exchange student from the University of Newcastle, Australia currently studying as a special auditor in the Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto University.
