CUT | International University Partnerships

The Centre for Global Engagement (CGE) together with its international partners, offers strategic services to the CUT community and international stakeholders, ranging from:

the end-to-end administration and management of CUT’s international partnerships;
international communication and liaison services for CUT’s internal and external community;
monitoring and updating CUT’s policies on internationalisation and collaboration;
promoting and supporting participation in international projects funded by CUT, as well as CUT’s internationally funded projects, thereby promoting the communication of CUT’s innovation and research to the university’s partners; and
relationship management with legal services, Management structures, Deans, Communications and Marketing, and Academic Administration.

Centre for Global Engagements (CGE) take pride itself in managing the process of internationalisation through dynamic and strategic partnerships is a key component of an internationalised university. The university of the future embrace’s collaborative curriculum delivery and the generation of new knowledge. CGE proudly embraces and manages 49 dynamic international collaborations on behalf of CUT, with its footprint spreading over four continents.

The constant changes and developments in the geopolitical environment prompt universities to rethink international collaboration/partnerships and adapt to innovative forms of collaboration in virtual and physical spaces. Through its international partnerships, CUT offers students and employees the unique ability to operate in, and engage with, the changing environment through the following competencies:

knowing how to relate new knowledge to what is already known;
being able to read the signals of an unfamiliar situation, interpret its elements, and connect them to each other;
understanding the process of cultural interaction, and have the ability to discern differences and similarities between cultures, including variations within similarities, and vice versa;
being able to communicate with diverse groups;
being able to adjust to an environment without losing one’s identity and compromising one’s values
being able to promote social justice in an unequal world; and
being globally competent citizens who can translate the local to the global, thus being drivers of change.

International partners offer CUT students and employees the added niche to travel internationally by means of exchange programmes. Partnerships further create an enabling environment for international students and employees to exchange to CUT. In addition, international partnerships enable CUT and its partners to better understand the culture of other nations, thereby responsibly internationalising the mindset of students and employees.