On the 13th of September Kuban SAU welcomed guests from India, they are Ajay Sharma, CEO of Robert Davies Associates which is a company that provides on-campus counselling services to students of schools, colleges and universities of India and Utkarsha Sharma, a representative of the company. The delegation came to our university to get acquainted with Russia’s leading agrarian university and to discuss areas of prospective cooperation in the sphere of exchange of students and academic staff with Indian universities.
Tatiana Polutina, Vice-Rector for International and Youth Policy held an excursion around Kuban SAU for the guests. Within the excursion the delegation visited museum, sports complex, policlinic, library, dormitories, volunteer center, laboratories, Faculty of Mechanization with its equipped classes. They also met our foreign students from Burundi and Ghana, who told about studying at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and living in a dormitory.
After the excursion the delegation attended the Preparatory Department for Foreign Citizens, where the Department staff told about their special training program for learning Russian language and provided with all the internal documents concerning curriculum, student’s books and social work carried out for foreign citizens. Mr. Ajay Sharma und Ms. Utkarsha Sharma also met the attendees of the Preparatory Department, they were pleasantly surprised with attendees’ language proficiency. Irina Kolesnikova, the Head of the Department paid special attention to the fact that graduates of Kuban SAU Preparatory Department are not only good in Russian, but also had all the necessary knowledge for passing university entrance exams.
The Indian guests were very much impressed by Kuban SAU and showed their try interest in cooperation with us. Further when the Parties were discussing cooperation fields they agreed for recruitment of Indian prospective students to study at Preparatory Department and Kuban SAU, development of academic mobility programs for exchange of students and staff and joint research work with Indian universities.
Summarizing the results of the visit the parties concluded a Memorandum of Intent for prospective cooperation with the company and universities of India.