Office for International Affairs 

The aim of the Office for International Affairs is to maintain and to enhance the CUT’s profile of providing internationally recognised technological education. We co-ordinate all the CUT's international activities and provide a service for colleagues and students, as well as for international visitors.

Our key areas of activity are:

*        Links and co-operation agreements with international

institutions

The Office for International Affairs facilitates the forming of links and co-operative agreements with a number of institutions world-wide. This may be between individual staff members and international colleagues, departmental agreements or formal agreements between the institutions themselves. At the moment we have 13 signed agreements with foreign universities

*        International student recruitment

It is the aim of the CUT to increase the number of its full-time international students, especially on post-graduate level. To enhance these numbers the office regularly visits overseas institutions to market the CUT as a high quality technological university. In addition the Office participate in recruitment events overseas. During 2004 we had about 1000 foreign students on campus, most of them from SADC countries

*        Student and staff exchanges

The Office works closely with academic and support staff in the CUT to co-ordinate and to streamline the exchange of students and staff to and from international institutions.

*        International visits by staff

The Office helps with the planning of and finalising the programmes and itineraries of staff members who undertakes international visits or study tours.

*        Support service for international students

The welfare of international students are one of our priorities. We look after the specific needs of our international students from the time of their first contact with the CUT until the student leaves the institution. This includes pre-arrival information, help with finding accommodation as well as an orientation programme.

*        International visitors

The Office helps with organising and implementing the programmes for visiting academics or delegations.

The contact information for the office is:

Tel. : +27.51.5073834

Fax: +27.51.5073835

e-mail: dvgensen@cut.ac.za

Postal address:

The Director

Office for International Affairs

Private Bag X20539

Bloemfontein  9300

South Africa

Physical address:

Room 123

Advancement and Marketing Building