Student Mobility Worldwide
Networking Higher Education Worldwide for Student Mobility - Global Academic Collaboration Center (GACC) -
KDU Introduction
For the decades to come, we firmly believe that global student mobility will be one of the most critical pillars of international higher education. The fundamental concept of global mobility rests upon enabling students to acquire internationally competitive knowledge, skills, and experiences by freely moving around the world and seizing the opportunities for their individual career-needs. KDU Global Academic Collaboration Center (GACC) is established to network the higher educational institutions worldwide based on a common academic platform and under a shared vision to achieve this very goal for international students. So far, the GACC network is joined by over 20 prominent partner universities from different countries utilizing a pool of educational and research resources and practicing compatible curriculums that are constantly revised and upgraded through a coordinated collaboration. KDU and all the partner universities are, hence, able to maximize the quality of education for their students using extensive international experience and exposure.
KDU Conceptual Advantages
Our concept of global student mobility is superior to the traditional ones in several distinct ways. The traditional understanding of student mobility is about students transferring to other universities based on typical 'credit transfer schemes' or as 'exchange students,' in most cases, entailing disturbances in the quality and timing of their education due to differences in curriculums as well as academic systems between the home and the host institutions. Whereas, within the GACC network, our students are exposed to the same programs of study and teaching and learning principles at all member institutions. Therefore, the students' transfer from one member university to another avoids all sorts of technical intricacies as well as tedious and lengthy administrative processes. Moreover, while universities practicing the common credit transfers or exchange student programs often experience dis-balances in the numbers of inbound and outbound students, the GACC network ensures equity to all partners, both academically partnerships are mutually beneficial and sustainable in the long-run! Another version of the traditional concept is when a university operates an offshore campus or program and allows the students to relocate to other campuses over the later courses of their study. However, the number of students who are subjected to this form of 'mobility' is naturally limited to the capacity of the one - the same university. Within our GACC network, on the other hand, there is any limit to neither the number of students nor the opportunities for an individual student - we take a significant step further than the traditional practices! More importantly, the GACC network members practice common curriculums and academic mechanisms that are constantly enhanced and updated through collaborative efforts and united expertise. By creating and sharing a pool of their best practices, academic and non-academic resources, our partner universities can easily compete with any single top-ranking higher educational institution in the world!
MISSION
To offer internationally competitive education for students within a global network of prominent universities sharing a common and constantly enhanced academic platform.
Objectives
- Establishing and networking Global Academic Collaboration Centers at partner universities.
- Developing and implementing a common academic and operational platform within the network.
- Ensuring equity, transparency, and accountability for all partner-universities.
- Delivering constant revision and improvement of all academic practices through collaborative efforts by the partner-institutions.
- Enabling the students to be globally mobile to capture the opportunities and experiences to enhance the competencies fitting their individual needs and passions.
- Boosting the employability and international competitiveness of the graduates and ensuring their ultimate success.
KDU Curriculum Design
For all the undergraduate degree programs at KDU Global Campus, we have developed specializations-oriented, competencies-based curriculums to ensure the employability of our graduates. Each program integrates five specializations that the enrolled students are expected to acquire the mastery of by the time they graduate and enter the global job markets or advance to their further studies. All subjects in our curriculums are thoroughly designed to gradually build up the competencies that the employers in the 21st century seek after. The students who complete the undergraduate programs that do not deliver concrete competencies and specializations often end up incompetent to perform the basic job duties in their fields even though they spend three to four years of their lives at a university. A typical path followed by those students to overcome the problem is then to join a graduate program with a narrow, possibly well-organized, specialization track. We have realized and successfully addressed this challenge in designing our curriculums to equip our students with knowledge, skills, and competencies in five major specializations simultaneously in each one of our undergraduate degree programs. Our experience accumulated over the last 30 years has proven it feasible The GACC network exercises a common academic platform including the same curriculums and resources available for all the partner-universities. While maintaining the core program objectives and intended educational outcomes, the partneruniversities are provided complete freedom to customize the curriculum contents to incorporate the local governmental and institutional requirements. With equal rights and privileges, all members, including KDU, cont and privileges, all members, including KDU, contribute to the consistent improvement of the shared curriculums and educational practices! We are confident that the employability-oriented curriculums combined with the potentials of the worldwide GACC network promise unprecedented opportunities for our ultimate stakeholders - the students. As our curriculums and academic principles produce capable professionals, the ability of the students to freely move around within the network ensures their unparalleled competitiveness by exposing them to different cultures, languages, values, and countless more gains!
KDU Operational Arrangements
KDU facilitates the effective and timely establishment of a GACC in coordination with all new partner-institutions in their respective countries. The facilitation process includes administrative and operational guidelines as well as technical assistance in the field. Each GACC will be owned and operated by a partner-institution. The management personnel including the Dean/Director and the Heads of the Programs at the GACC will also be nominated by the partner-university in agreement with KDU. The Deans/Directors shall maintain close coordination with the partners in the network to warrant the effectiveness and transparency of overall operations.
The network does not impose any limit on either the number of GACC's in one country by multiple partners or the number of GACCs operated by one partner in different countries, if viable. It is indeed unequivocally countries, if viable. It is indeed unequivocally true that the bigger the network, the wider the scope of opportunities for the students and the higher the quality of the shared resources! Each GACC carries out the admission processes for its own students based on an agreed set of selection criteria and timelines. All enrolled students will be exposed to the same curriculums and educational practices based on the network's common academic platform and be eligible for full credit-transfers to continue their studies at any other partneruniversity from any semester. A student shall be able to obtain two or more degrees upon successfully completing the full course of an undergraduate program and meeting the graduation requirements by individual partners. The GACC network will operate based on a 'balancing principle,' whereby the partner-universities pledge to provide extensive and matching levels of financial and non-financial support to the students. Specifically, when transferring from one university to another, the students will be granted a proportional level of scholarships by all host universities within the network. By maintaining an independent and transparent financial account, each GACC will also offer additional forms of financial aid to both inbound and outbound students based on their academic merits using the accumulated dividends. As the initiator of the network, in addition to providing extensive scholarships, KDU provides a part-time job assistance to the inbound students to help them better plan their life and studies in Korea. An equal or equivalent form of assistance will be made available by all partners for the students to take advantage of throughout their global mobility!
'When it comes to higher education, we do not want to limit the students geographically. It is becoming increasingly critical to let the students move around freely to get educated and trained in a well-coordinated academic environment and expose them the international community and industry. The globally mobile students will learn more about different cultures, languages, and industry practices to be better prepared for their future. Despite many legal barriers hindering this in different countries, we endeavor to eliminate them by expanding our educational network worldwide for the best interest of students and for the sake of better education."
President of KDU Global Prof. Dr. John K. Lee
Student Mobility Worldwide
| No. | Country | University | Name of Center | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta | On Hold | |
| 2 | Kazakhstan | Shakarim State University of Semey | SGACC | |
| 3 | Bangladesh | Leading University | LGACC | On Hold |
| 4 | Indonesia | Universitas Islam Riau | RGACC | |
| 5 | Vietnam | Thai Nguyen University | NGACC | On Hold |
| 6 | Indonesia | Universitas Muhammadiya Kalimantan Timur | KGACC | |
| 7 | Rwanda | The University of Tourism, Technology and Business Studies(UTB) | UGACC | |
| 8 | India | Sage University | SUGACC | |
| 9 | Indonesia | Universitas Islam Sultan Agung | SULGACC | |
| 10 | Poland | Jan Amos Komenski State School of Higher Vocational Education in Leszno | PGACC | |
| 11 | Kenya | Inter University Council for East Africa | ||
| 12 | Tanzania | Inter University Council for East Africa | ||
| 13 | Uganda | Inter University Council for East Africa | ||
| 14 | Burundi | Inter University Council for East Africa | ||
| 15 | Republic of South Sudan | Inter University Council for East Africa | ||
| 16 | Rwanda | Inter University Council for East Africa | ||
| 17 | Uzbekistan | Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies | TSGACC | |
| 18 | Uzbekistan | Tashkent State University of Economics | TGACC | |
| 19 | India | Comorin International Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Development |
CGACC | |
| 20 | India | SRM University Delhi-NCR Sonipat, Haryana | SRM GACC | |
| 21 | India | Chandigarh university | ||
| 22 | Indonesia | Telecom University | ||
| 23 | Indonesia | UPI(Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia) | UPI GACC |
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