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BU Botswana students partner with national blood bank to help boost numbers of blood donors

Two Botho University students Gobakwe Ramadi & Morongwa Trinity Machola studying Bsc in Health Information Management, partnered with National Blood Bank to help boost the number of blood donors that …

Blended and Distance Learning - Botho University

6 hours ago

Yet another partnership with a Turkish University. We are excited to announce the partnership between Botho University and Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Turkey🥳🥳🥳🥳𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚: Botho University is focused on providing its students and staff with international opportunities through collaboration with various international universities. These international collaborations include student and staff exchange, joint curriculum development and research. Botho University is happy to announce that it has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Bahçeşehir University, based in Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Sheela Ram, the Vice-Chancellor of Botho University said, “By providing opportunities for Botho University staff and students to engage with international universities and different cultures they will gain a global outlook and students can develop valuable employability attributes. We have developed the Botho Graduate Profile as our mission towards producing entrepreneurial and employable graduates and we believe that this new partnership with Bahçeşehir University, Turkey will help our students to become true global citizens. At Botho University we view Turkey as an attractive educational destination as this is the second MoU with Turkish universities. I thank Her Excellency, the Turkish Ambassador to Botswana, Ms. Meltem Büyükkarakaş for facilitating this partnership”. Bahçeşehir University (BAU) is a higher education University located in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey. BAU has 6 campuses, offers more than 204 programs of study, and has over 18,000 undergraduate students, 5000 graduate students and notably with an international student complement of more than 5,600 students from the United States to China, France to South Korea. BAU is a higher education institution dedicated to teaching, research, and service to society, the mission of Bahçeşehir University is to educate the leading workforce of future who have an inquiring mind and a critical thinking ability; are sensitive to local and global issues; achieve international standards; contribute to scientific, technological, and cultural knowledge; are strong supporters of universal ideas and values. The aim of Bahçeşehir University is to take its place on the top 500 universities list by the year 2023 when they will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Turkey. The MoU signed between Botho University and Bahçeşehir University will cover the following aspects:1.Exchange of students for study2.Exchange of faculty members for study, research and participation in educational programmes3. Exchange of scholars for lectures, talks and sharing experience4. Exchange of publications in fields of interest in both universities5. Collaborative professional development: 6. Joint educational programmes: On their behalf, Prof. Dr. Şirin Karadeniz the Rector of Bahçeşehir University was pleased to sign the MOU with Botho University. She stated that initial MoU signed among both universities would definitely provide valuable opportunities to the students, staff and all stakeholders as whole on both sides as this remarks the BAU’s first bilateral agreement signed with a higher education institution in Botswana. Hereby, she extended her sincere thanks and appreciation to H.E.. the Turkish Ambassador to Botswana, Ms. Meltem Büyükkarakaş for initiating the earlier communication and facilitating this partnership”. She also added that the fact that BAU has a remarkable number of students from Sub-Saharan Africa countries and strategic development plans in both short and long run to enhance its liaison network within the region. Taking that into consideration, she certainly believes that this agreement will base a foundation for long lasting and fruitful cooperation in future terms. In addition, she extended her best wishes to the entire BU family during the upcoming academic year that may bring full of success stories and accomplishments. Botho University signs any memorandum of agreement remaining mindful of the fact that the real benefit of all of these partnerships comes from their effective implementation and monitoring. Botho University has a dedicated department for managing all institutional partnerships working closely with all academic departments and student support services to ensure that students, staff and graduates take full advantage of such opportunities. Botho University remains committed to the pursuit of producing internationally competitive graduates across all its campuses based in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini and Distance Learning.Turkish Embassy in Gaborone ... See MoreSee Less

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Blended and Distance Learning - Botho University

5 days ago

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