Australia’s no. 1 ranked University of Technology Sydney to open pathway college in Sri Lanka
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has reportedly confirmed it will open a pathway college in Sri Lanka known as UTS Insearch Sri Lanka.
The UTS has become the world’s 140th ranked university, in addition to being Australia’s number 1 ranked young university (under 50 years of age).
UTS Insearch Sri Lanka is to open in Colombo later this year offering courses to prepare students for university.
This is exciting news both from an educational perspective as well as a business one, as UTS will be operating in Sri Lanka independently, with the entire investment of US$ 2.1million coming from Australia, Sri Lanka’s state owned English daily has reported.
The University of Technology Sydney has an enviable reputation with employers and industry and has reportedly been on a trajectory of advancement – in just eight years it has jumped a tremendous 144 places in the global analysis of university performance by higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds.
QS uses six indicators to compile rankings: academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty (measuring research impact), faculty/student ratio, international faculty ratio and international student ratio. Employer reputation is the highest-ranked indicator for UTS in the latest assessment, while part of the 20-place progress in UTS’s world ranking has been driven by increases in academic reputation and citations per faculty.
“It’s pleasing to see our QS ranking continue to reflect the increased recognition of UTS internationally as a university producing high-quality, globally-respected research that makes significant economic, environmental, cultural and social impact,” UTS Vice-Chancellor Attila Brungs has been quoted as saying.
UTS Insearch Sri Lanka is to reportedly draw upon the depth of experience of UTS Insearch, which provides English language and education pathways for the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, and through partnerships in China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, South Korea and Vietnam.
OSL take:
Many foreign universities have opened pathway colleges in Sri Lanka. Most of these colleges are attended by students from other South Asian countries as well. The government of Sri Lanka pays special attention to the uplifting of the country’s higher education sector and stopping the brain drain from the country. This has created business/investment opportunities in Sri Lanka’s higher education sector for foreign education institutions.
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