The Faculty of Business and Management Sciences recently welcomed a group of international exchange students from its partner universities in Europe.
The 24 students are from Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Belgium and France. They will be attending classes at various departments within the faculty.
As part of the students’ orientation week a luncheon was hosted recently by the faculty’s Associate Dean, Ivan van der Heever, at the Cape Town Hotel School.
Van der Heever welcomed the students to the university and to Cape Town and informed them about the current water crisis.
He urged them to save as much water as they can.
Luke Geraets, an Entrepreneurship student from Fontys University, Netherlands, says he came to Cape Town to experience a different culture as he has always wanted to study abroad.
“The people in Cape Town are open, they are eager to know you and tell you about themselves,” he says. “And they are very proud of their city and country.”
Florean Hagner, a Real Estate student from Anhalt University, Germany, says Cape Town is a beautiful city.
“The local people are friendly and the city is an ideal location in which to shoot nice photographs,” says Florean.
He says that he chose to come to South Africa over European countries because he had never been to Africa.
As part of their orientation the students also participated in a CPUT Library Orientation and Information Literacy training, a tour of the exciting tourism destinations around the Peninsula as well as a Cultural Tour of local townships, which included opportunities for the European students to interact with the faculty’s community-based partners.
During the tours the students were guided by the faculty’s staff members Nizaam Peck, a qualified tour guide, and Nicole Umwizerwa.
