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  • 16 - Jan
  • 2024

Korean experts at The University Of Jordan" to evaluate the project to establish an academy to qualify and train Jordanian engineers

University of Jordan News ..Soha Al-Subaihi - A delegation from the Korea Cooperation Agency (KOICA) visited the University of Jordan today, which included officials from the agency and Korean experts in a number of engineering and technical fields, for the purposes of preparing the evaluation studies and the executive plan for the proposed project that the university submitted to the Ministry. Korean planning and international cooperation, through the agency, to establish a Korean academy to qualify and train Jordanian engineers at the School of Engineering.

 

The delegation met with the President of the University, Dr. Nathir Obeidat, his deputies, the deans of the relevant schools, and those responsible for the project at the university. During the meeting, the importance of the project, which passed the initial selection stage, to the university and the local community, and its impact in reducing the gap between the education sector and industry, was discussed.

 

Obeidat stressed the strength of the partnership between the university and the agency, and the importance of the project presented by the university at various levels, as it will work to strengthen the university's efforts directed towards reducing the gap between academia and industry, that is, between education and skills, by providing students with the skills necessary to enter the labor market from its widest doors.

 

Obeidat pointed to many achievements and decisions supporting these trends, as well as many scenarios and agreements concluded with a number of parties in the field of industry and the private sector, and the decision to allow experts belonging to these sectors to teach 20% of university courses, noting the relations between the university and national institutions. Concerned with developing and linking various sectors, such as the Jordanian Economic Forum, trade unions, the National Center for Cybersecurity, and others.

 

During the meeting, the vice presidents and deans pointed out many of the strengths that qualify it to manage such projects, such as attaching great importance to training courses in various programs and graduation projects, noting the importance of having an infrastructure capable of accommodating the educational, training and qualification needs that the programs require.

 

The experts toured the university campus, where they visited a number of its facilities, such as the library unit, the antiquities and folk heritage museums, and the Korean corner in the School of Foreign Languages.

 

The university's visit program in the coming days includes a number of other facilities, such as the School of Engineering, the King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, the Water, Energy and Environment Center, and the Central Tenders Department

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