Nelson Mandela University International News

Mandela University final year Law student from Zimbabwe, Gamuchirai Mudehwe, has been selected as part of the 54 exceptional young African leaders to join The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship class of 2020.

The University welcomes Dr Beata Mtyingizana-Buhlungu as its new Senior Director: International Education from 1 October 2019.

 

The second annual China-South Africa Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum was held at Nelson Mandela University Business School in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday, 10 September 2019. The Youth Forum was jointly organised by the Zhejiang Normal University from Jinhua, China and Nelson Mandela University. 

The Office for International Education at Nelson Mandela University hosted its annual International Diversity Week on and off campus from 12- 17 August 2019. The objective of Diversity Week was to promote the concept, “Internationalization At Home”, and to celebrate the rich diversity of cultures present specifically at Nelson Mandela University, but also within the wider Nelson Mandela Metro.

The Office for International Education welcomed the University of Oldenburg, Germany, to Nelson Mandela University on 8 July 2019. The two institutions have a long-standing partnership dated back to 2006. The delegation included Prof. Dr Ester Ruigendijk - VP for Early Career Researchers and Internationalisation, Dr Michaela Muylkens - Head of Research and Transfer, Prof. Dr. Stephanie Birkner - Female Entrepreneurship, Prof. Dr. Jorge Marx Gomez - Business Information Systems, Ms Miriam Wiediger - Founding and Innovation Centre, and Ms Lisa Heinrichs - PhD student.

It has been a busy start to the second semester for the Office for International Education. Students from all over Europe, the United States of America and Korea were welcomed to Nelson Mandela University for their Study Abroad Orientation from 15 July to 19 July 2019. These students will be with us for the remainder of the year, completing modules that correlate with the course they are currently studying at their home university.

“That’s the Africa we want.”

So said Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) Vice-Chancellor Prof Address Malata about African universities working together across disciplines at the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the institution and Nelson Mandela University.

The parties established the MOU to foster international cooperation in education and research between the two Universities as well as South Africa and Malawi broadly.