Overview
IAPO highlights
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- Dr Loveness Kaunda retires after six years of service as director of IAPO
- Dr Kaunda is succeeded by Professor Evance Kalula, who has served at UCT for more than 20 years
- UCT hosted the 16th annual International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) conference http://youtu.be/hq3hUh3q_rs
- UCT selected to lead African consortium in ARISE bid (EU funded intra-ACP programme), with a grant of EUR2 million, for staff and graduate student mobility in Africa
- UCT promoted to South African coordinator for the ema2SA consortium (www.ema2sa.eu)
- Director invited to present a paper at the Australian International Education conference
- Director launched a special interest group, Internationalisation of the Curriculum, at the 16th annual IEASA conference
- UCT joined the EU-SATURN consortium, for staff and graduate student mobility between South Africa and Europe (www.eu-saturn.eu/)
- Worked with Centre for Open Learning to develop the cooperative 2013 July School with the London School of Economics
- First Africa month highly successful
- Donation drive: equipment donated to the Christine Revel children’s home in Athlone
- Second annual African safari to East Africa attended by 13 academic staff
- Relaunch of USHEPIA programme and website
- IMAG questionnaire for the policy of internationalisation successful, with a 31% response rate
- Road show for outgoing exchange students held on upper campus
- Continued growth of incoming Students Abroad programme
- IAPO holds its first refugee student support forum
- Establishment of the Worldwide University Network (WUN) steering group at UCT
- UCT joined the ema2SA Erasmus consortium, for staff and graduate student mobility between South Africa and Europe (www.ema2sa.eu)
- Director served on the Confucius Institute Board, UCT
- Hosted WUN Understanding Cultures meeting, together with HUMA (Institute for Humanities in Africa), at UCT
- Hosted WUN Global Health conference in COPD, together with IIDMM, at UCT
- Internationalisation video launched, showcasing UCT as an international university (http://youtu.be/1455pk_Tr94)
- Facilitated more than 100 individual and delegation visits to UCT from around the world.
- IAPO offices relocated to Masingene Building, Level 3
- IAPO hosts its first annual spring braai event
- IAPO successfully lobbied the Department of Home Affairs to allow international students with pending visa applications to register
- Two IAPO staff members elected to IEASA's Management Council and Director's Forum
- Largest intake of SSA students since the programme began
- IEASA Golden Key award
- VC grant to kickstart WUN activities
- Independent survey on the strategic impact and value of the SSA programme done by Mthenthe
- Total staff members: 27
- IAPO is awarded an IEASA/Golden Key award for excellence in internationalisation in the category of international students as a percentage of total student registrations
- USHEPiA Planning group visited all partner universities as part of the review
- UCT joined the World University Network (WUN)
- IAPO launches newsletter - World@UCT
- IAPO and the Department of Student Affairs establish the International Students Forum
- Work started on the IAPO database of UCT's international linkages
- USHEPiA programme was prioritised on UCT's fundraising priority list of Alumni and Development. This means that UCT recognises USHEPiA as one of the key strategic thrusts
- The Rockefeller Foundation funded the strategic review for the future of USHEPiA
- Six USHEPiA fellows graduated with PHDs, plus one masters degree
- UCT enrols 4 496 international students
- UCT hosts immigration legislation awareness seminar at UCT for Western Cape institutions together with the Department of Home Affairs
- USHEPiA Future Strategy Conference held in November
- USHEPiA Intellectual Property Project initiated
- Three USHEPiA fellows graduated with PHDs
- Eric Abrahams Academic Visitorships Programme launched for Scholars at Risk
- UCT enrols 4 283 international students
- IAPO establishes the International Management Advisory Group to advise, and be a policy reference group for the DVC on internationalisation at UCT
- IAPO celebrates its 10th anniversary
- UCT's Internationalisation Policy is launched
- The first Semester Study Abroad in Africa programme between the University of Cape Town and University of Dar-es-Salaam is launched - UCT/UDSM African Leadership Exchange Programme
- IAPO welcomes 418 SSA students in the first semester; its highest ever number of SSA students in a semester
- Total staff members: 23
- IAPO co-ordinates its first "Africa Day" celebrations
- IAPO starts billing
1 000 international-term-fee accounts per annum - IAPO is awarded an IEASA Golden Key award for Excellence in Internationalisation in the Quality Information for International Students category
- IAPO co-ordinates its first Refugee Students' Summit, attended by refugee students from institutions in the Western Cape
- The USHEPiA Programme has awarded 21 PhD and 6 master's degrees since its inception
- Total staff members: 22
- UCT registers over
4 000 international students from 97 countries (full degree -3 219 , SSA - 709)
- Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo is appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor, International Relations, at UCT
- IAPO hosts the 8th International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) conference at UCT
- IAPO is awarded an IEASA / Golden Key award for Excellence in Internationalisation in the International Student Exchange Programme category
- IAPO co-ordinates more than 30 inter-institutional memoranda of understanding and helps facilitate a further 42 UCT departmental and faculty agreements
- Total staff members: 19
- Total international students:
3 485
- The USHEPiA Programme has its first external evaluation
- IAPO hosts staff members from the University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) on a 3-month academic exchange programme
- Total staff members: 19
- International full-degree students now nearly
3 000 from 92 different countries - SSA student numbers now nearly 450.
- IAPO organises its first "World at UCT" / International Week event
- IAPO's first "Come and See for Yourself" exercise is launched and attended by staff members from partner institutions in the USA and Norway
- Total staff members: 18
- Total international students:
2 748 1 000 students have come on the SSA programme since its inception.
- IAPO runs planning workshops at USHEPiA partner universities for a major proposal on "Applying Biotechnology to Poverty in Africa" to explore the possibilities offered by international multidisciplinary research projects within the programme
- The USHEPiA programme in partnership with the Association of African Universities launches a pilot opportunity to build up an African research ethic in the areas of science, engineering and humanities
- Total staff members: 14
- Total international students:
2 507
- Draft policy on internationalisation at UCT is presented to UCT's senior executive
- The African Academic Links Programme is created within IAPO to focus on relationships with other African universities
- IAPO co-ordinates a joint South African Department of Education / UNESCO pilot fellowship scheme of African academic exchange. 30 Fellowships are awarded to senior African academics to spend up to 6 months doing research at one of the (then) 5 Western Cape higher-education institutions.
- Total staff members: 13
- Total international students:
2 414
- IAPO runs its first "Home Affairs" week in collaboration with the Department of Home Affairs, enabling international students to renew their study permits on campus
- IAPO conducts its first visit to a European partner institution: University of Leiden
- IAPO's first attendance at the European Association for International Education (EAIE) Conference in Maastricht, Netherlands
- IAPO appoints a SADC Student Officer
- IAPO organises the Emerging African Leaders' Working Forum Seminar at UCT.
- UCT was certified to administer the US Federal Aid (Stafford Loans).
- Total staff members: 11
- Total international students:
2 208
- IAPO runs its first international students' pre-registration process to check study permits and fee payments
- IAPO launches its Semester Study Abroad (SSA) Programme with 152 students.
- First IAPO attendance at the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) Conference held in Pretoria
- First IAPO attendance at NAFSA Conference, USA
- USHEPiA partner universities conduct an internal evaluation of the programme at UCT
- Total staff members: 7
- Total international students:
1 997
- IAPO welcomes its second cohort of USHEPiA Fellows (humanities).
- IAPO publishes its first international student booklet.
- The Council for International Educational Exchange (CIEE) and IAPO sign an agreement to host a study centre for study-abroad students at UCT
- Total staff members: 5
- Total international students:
1 630
- The International Academic Programmes Office is established at UCT with Ms Lesley Shackleton as founding director
- IAPO welcomes its first cohort of USHEPiA Fellows (science and engineering). (The USHEPiA Programme participating universities are the Universities of Cape Town, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Dar-es-Salaam, Nairobi and Zambia, the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Nairobi) and Makerere University, Uganda)
- Total staff members: 3
- Total international students: unknown
