FEM IPB Builds Partnership with 5 Australian University
During the academic visit done by the directors of Faculty of Economics and Management (FEM) Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) to 5 university in Australia, partnership agreements were achieved. IPB Team visited University of Adelaide, Deakin University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, and Sydney University.
“This academic visit was conducted in early November. From this visit, we successfully established a partnership in the form of Joint PhD degree, expansion of Double Degree, Staff and Student Mobility, Summer Programs, Credit Earning, and Joint Research,” said the Dean of FEM, Dr. Nunung Nuryartono.
In University of Adelaide, especially in the Faculty of Profession, IPB will establish a cooperation in the form of Joint PhD Degree program in Economics and an expansion of Double Degree for agribusiness and resources and environmental economics. Besides that, there will be a Staff and Student Mobility through Summer Program in FEM-IPB.
“The students from Adelaide can directly learn about Indonesia. Summer Program is designed as a part of credit earning. Planned to be executed in February 2019, there will be workshop with a topic of “Future Job, Future Skill” in IPB,” he said.
“Other partnerships will also be developed, for example; the development of Islamic Economics, Adelaide Corner in IPB, Tailor Made Programs for Executive,” he added.
Meanwhile, in the School of Business, Monash University, FEM IPB team was welcomed directly by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abid Khan that supervised Global Engagement. This meeting resulted on the agreement to start the Undergraduate Double Degree program which covered areas of concentration which were currently very much needed by the world of work. The Double Degree program for graduate students would also be available for the Department of Management and the Department of Agribusiness. Other than that, there has been an assessment about the partnership to increase staff and student mobility through Summer Course program.
The academic visit was continued to Deakin University. There was a meeting with the colleagues in School of Business and Law that resulted in several agreements to prepare for the Double Degree program both for undergraduate and graduate students in the sector of Management and Agribusiness. There would also be a guidance of doctoral program for Islamic Finance.
“FEM-IPB also designed summer program in order to attract the students of Deakin to participate in the summer programs in the departments in FEM. The assessment for credit earning program also became one of the main topics. In addition, there would also be a joint research between staff at the School of Economics with the Department of Economics and the Department of Resource and Environmental Economics.
As in the School Business IT and Logistic from RMIT, the team was welcomed by Prof. Caroline Chan. To start the staff and student mobility, the program would be developed as soon as possible.
In his visit to Australia, Dr. Nunung was accompanied by the Vice Dean of Academic and Student Affairs and all Heads of Department (Kadep) in FEM (Kadep Economics, Kadep Management, Kadep Agribusiness, Kadep Resources and Environmental Economic, and Kadep Syariah Economics). (CN)
