Increasing Global Engagement to be a World Class University, Vocational UI Collaborates with Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e
As an effort to be a world class university, Universitas Indonesia (UI) continues to intensively conduct global engagement. This is one of UI’s strategies to improve the quality of education. Through the associate degree (D3) and applied bachelor (D4) program, Vocational Education Program UI has contributed to increasing cooperation with foreign universities, which is Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL), Timor Leste. Director of Vocational Education Program UI Padang Wicaksono, S.E, Ph.D fully supports this collaboration step. “Vocational UI is committed to improving the quality of education through cooperation schemes with domestic and foreign educational institutions.
This step is our commitment to improving global engagement of UI. We hope that this collaboration can become a bridge for both parties to improve education as well as the quality and quantity of research and community service,” said Padang. The delegation of Vocational UI consisting of Secretary of Applied Social Humanities Department Hardika Widi Satria, S.Hum., M.Sc.; Head of Media Production Study Program Ngurah Rangga Wiwesa, M.I.Kom., CICS, MIPR; and a lecturer in Media Production study program, Margareta Manalu, M.Sc., visited the Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL) to establish cooperation to improve the Three Pillars of Higher Education at the end of last November. Hardika said the form of cooperation that will be built with UNTL covers various fields.
“In the field of education, we will develop joint degree programs, advanced education and certified training; research field in the form of international conference collaboration; as well as community service with activities in the fields of culture, media, tourism, and others,” said Hardika. Rector of Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e dr. JoÓ‘o Soares Martins, MPH., Ph.D., said that the collaborative program established between UNTL and Vocational UI could have a positive impact not only on students, but also on lecturers and the community in Timor Leste. “We are very pleased with the collaborative effort that will soon be implemented. I hope that this collaboration will continue to grow and spread to a wider scope,” said dr. JoÓ‘o Soares Martins.
The signing of the agreement of implementation (AOI) between Vocational UI and UNTL was also made as a commitment to this collaboration. This activity which was carried out in the city of Dili was attended by the Cooperation Affairs Office of UNTL, Aliona D. Talaia, MSc .; Vice Chancellor for Cooperation of UNTL, Prof. Dr. Lídia Gomes; and Director of the Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences UNTL, Marcelino Ximenes Magno, MA. On the same occasion, the delegation from Vocational UI also gave a public lecture to UNTL students as a form of this collaboration. The public lecture had a broad topic of communication from Vocational UI lecturers, which was the first step of collaboration for the cooperation that was built between Vocational UI and UNTL.
This collaboration is inseparable from the visit made by Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Timor Leste Fidelis Manuel Leite Magalhães and State Secretary for Social Communications of Timor Leste Merício Juvinal dos Reis to Vocational UI in the Campus Orientation for New Students (PKKMB) 2022, on August 2022. On this occasion, Merício said, his party opens opportunities for students who want to do internships and study in Timor Leste. Thus, cooperation and collaboration between Indonesia and Timor Leste can be continuously established.
Author: Public Relations of Vocational UI| Editor: Maudisha
