A group of French students – the first to benefit from a new agreement between CPUT and two French institutions-has spent the past few months with the Information Technology Department.
IT lecturer Dr Boniface Kabaso said the students were from two French institutions – Efrei and Esigetel – and these institutions have a tradition of sending students abroad do part of their orientation in an English-speaking country.
Some of the countries students had been sent to included India and Malaysia and South Africa was recently added to this list.
“CPUT was asked to provide a classroom environment with teachers for 20 to 40 students twice a year (semester 1 and 2). We agreed and the memorandum of understanding was signed in Paris. We have an agreement in place for the next five years,” said Kabaso.
He said the curriculum delivered to the French students while at the IT Department had to be the same as what was being delivered in the other countries.
“We teach them the same thing during the same period.”
CPUT students have been acting as buddies for the French students and have been showing them around campus.
French student Simon Teixeira said he would encourage other students from his institution to make use of the opportunity to study at CPUT.
“It was a very enjoyable experience and we got a different view from how things are in France.”
Written by Ilse Fredericks
