Our Friends from Overseas

22:40, October 25, 2012

The delegation from an Australian university is spending three days in UrFU

On 25 October a delegation from the Business School of Curtin University (Australia) arrived at the Ural Federal University. The delegation includes the Dean International Prof Rick Naidu and Prof Bella Butler. 

The main objective of their visit is signing a memorandum of understanding between UrFU and Curtin University. The guests were welcomed by UrFU Rector Viktor Koksharov and the Director of the Graduate School of Economics and Management Sergei Kadochnikov. 

"We are certainly open for cooperation with our new partners and are enthusiastic about your visit", Sergei Kadochnikov assured the guests.

In his turn, Rick Naidu said that he was satisfied with his visit to the largest Ural university and explained that when the question of interaction with Russian universities had been discussed at Curtin University, his colleague Bella Butler had suggested visiting UrFU - one of the most dynamically developing universities in Russia.  

"Curtin University, attended by over 30,000 students, is one of the 12 leading universities in Australia. We have several campuses outside the Australian continent. These days our priority is expanding our partnership network in South-Eastern Asia, Europe and Latin America. We want our students to visit our partner universities and are ready to accept students from other universities", Prof.Naidu pointed out. 

Australians are rare guests at UrFU (the last visit took place this May, when the Ural Federal University received a delegation from the Austrade (Australian Trade Commission) Moscow office. Up until now there have been no running cooperation agreements between the University and our colleagues from this far-away continent.  

The Business School of Curtin University is one of the best in the Asian-Pacific region. According to The Economist, in 2011 the School's MBA programme ranked 3rd in Australia, 4th in Asia and 58th in the world. Furthermore, the School has international accreditation AMBA, EPAS and CEL.