Bahrain Polytechnic, OTAGO sign MoU

Bahrain Polytechnic signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with OTAGO Polytechnic recently at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), where both institutions will be cooperating together in terms of exchanging staff, students, academic information and materials to meet their goals.

The collaboration will allow the institutions to exchange faculty members with the objectives of training, offering courses and realising research projects. Besides, the institutions will exchange undergraduate students for enrolling students in courses appropriate to their year and area of study.

The institutions will also exchange books, scientific publications, study programmes, academic projects, courses information, conferences and other data of common interest. They will also develop joint applied research projects and work on joint publications.

“We are very pleased to have entered into this formal agreement with Bahrain Polytechnic. We have very similar curriculum goals and values, including internationalisation. We have much to learn from each other and this agreement paves the way for many exciting initiatives,” remarked the Chief Executive Officer of OTAGO Polytechnic, Phil Ker. 

According to Dr. Mohamed Al Aseeri, Acting CEO of Bahrain Polytechnic, the MoU will pave the way for achieving one of the goals of Bahrain Polytechnic’s strategic plan 2015-2019; fostering active engagement with stakeholders locally, regionally, and globally.

“As part of our strategic goals, under “Engagement for Impact”, the Polytechnic aims to produce graduates that meet the needs of the labour market at a local and international levels.  This will in turn contribute to the Kingdom’s social and economic wellbeing,” he said.

“Signing with renowned higher educational institutions such as OTAGO Polytechnic gives us the opportunity to take a step forward in meeting Bahrain’s 2030 Vision and fulfilling the government action plan 2015-2018,” Al Aseeri added.