The Technical University, Ibadan, Oyo State, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Texas Technical University (TTU), United States of America, on a collaboration that will see the two institutions exchange programmes for students, lecturers, researchers and other members of staff.
Texas Tech is one of the top technical institutions in the world.
With the collaboration, Tech-U may also emerge as the hub for TTU’s Study Abroad programme in Nigeria and other West African countries.
The exchange programme could commence as early as the 2019/2020 academic session with TTU students coming for their six weeks internships in factories and institutions in Ibadan and Lagos, as may be facilitated by the Tech-U.
Tagged ‘Collaborative Agreement for Study Abroad and Research’, the partnership will afford students of Tech-U to complete their degree programme at TTU and proceed to postgraduate studies if they desire.
It will also afford students and staff of Tech-U to participate in short and postgraduate programmes in which TTU has special capacity and competence, while researchers in both institutions will also collaborate in areas of common interest to internationalise their works.
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Signing the agreement at his office, the TTU president, Lawrence Schovance, said his institution was elated to expand scholarly activities to Nigeria through the partnership with Tech-U.
An engineering profess or, Schovance said the partnership was another step forward in TTU’s goal of widening its international operations to ensure that its students and faculty enjoy international enrichment in their studies and research.
The vice chancellor of The Technical University, Professor Ayobami Salami, said a major goal of Tech-U is to produce graduates who will be key players within the national space and in the larger global economy.
He also said the Tech-U’s was happy to have the partnership from its first year of operation, saying it shows the level of seriousness and determination of its management and promoters to promote the ideals of sound education.
In his speech, the Tech-U pro-chancellor, Professor Oye Ibidapo-Obe, said the partnership was the first among the steps to take the new university to the international scene, adding that in the next 50 years, Tech-U would be a model university in Nigeria given this type of partnerships and related initiatives.
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