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CUTM Delegation Visit to Morocco: Overview and Outcomes
In April 2022, Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM) hosted a seminar for ambassadors and high commissioners from Africa, showcasing its skill-integrated education model. Following this, the High Commissioner of Morocco expressed interest in collaboration, leading to a delegation visit from CUTM to Morocco on September 6, 2022.
Led by the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, the CUTM delegation met with key Moroccan institutions, including Al Qarawiyine University, Mohamed V University, and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, among others. The focus was on exploring opportunities in skill development and higher education.
The visit culminated in the signing of three Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the Higher Institute of Maritime Studies (ISEM), International University of Rabat (UIR), and Université Ibn Tofail. Additionally, CUTM initiated discussions for Ph.D. student exchange programs with the International University of Casablanca and proposed further collaborations in engineering, agriculture, paramedics, and media with various Moroccan ministries.
The successful delegation visit marked the beginning of enhanced educational and skill development cooperation between CUTM and Moroccan institutions.
MOU Signed
Areas of Cooperation
The “Parties” agree to cooperate, in a general way, in all the initiatives which can contribute to the development, the installation, the construction of a Center of Maritime Studies and the management of a national register of ships..
More specifically, cooperation between the “Parties’ will focus on the following areas:
- The definition of training courses in line with the needs of the sector;
- Identification of the training framework after exploration of possible host sites;
- The development of mechanisms for the management of the register of vessels
Areas of Cooperation
The goal of this MOU will be accomplished by working together in various ways which may include:
- Short term courses in the fields of Engineering, Agriculture, Paramedics, Media and Entrepreneurship
- Training of Trainers
- Curriculum Development
- Joint supervision of Phd students
- Collaborative Research
- Student exchanges
- Faculty and staff exchanges
- Exchanges of materials, and documents
- Creations and organization of conferences
Areas of Cooperation
The Parties regard the following areas of cooperation as desirable and feasible:
- Academic Exchange of students, teaching and administrative staff.
- Train the trainers.
- Developing maritime curriculum for e-learning programmes and distance examination processes.
- Exchange of maritime academic programs.
- Assistance for maintenance and upgrading of ISEM simulators subject to an additional agreement.
- Assistance in maritime partnerships.
- Development of new academic programs as required.
- Development of joint Scientific and/or Technological Research Projects.
- Joint collaboration, consultancy and partnership within the framework of IMO, WMU and IAMU.
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