Study Abroad Opportunities

[Former Member]

I have an undergraduate informations systems student that is interested in study abroad opportunities at SAP UA institutions outside the U.S.

Does anyone plan to offer SAP courses during the May-August time frame that this student might be interested in?

Edited by: Elizabeth Field on Feb 9, 2009 3:18 PM

[Former Member]

Hello Thomas,

I'm afraid we don't have an UKI opportunities for your student this summer as of course it would be too late. However this is something I am actively trying to develop for the future. A few colleagues from a US university will be travelling to one of my members in Ireland in a few weeks to talk about faculty and student exchanges and this is something I am very keen to support. In part because of the chance it offers for students to spread their wings and obtain a richer and more varied educational experience. In part because the students and faculty will have very different approaches to learning and teaching that should reinforce and cross-polinate each other and allow both to create a richer teaching environment.

I would suggest that that perhaps a good approach would be to form a relationship with a specific institution and initially exchange students between those two universities. I am certainly happy to progress any relationships in the UK and Ireland - we have 35 members across both countries so you'd be certain to find someone with similar teaching and course content. But outside the UK&I with almost 1,000 members worldwide I think Bob's suggestion is a great one - your certain to find a school that would match your course credit criteria and stduent interests pretty much exactly.

An idea for the future - and I don't know how realistic this is but it would certainly require authority greater than mine - would be to establish a network of interested UA members with a specific interest in student and faculty exchanges. There are already bodies like this but they are in the public domain - one I remember from my own student days is the PIMS network that enabled me to complete my MSc thesis in Palo Alto. I don't know if it still exists. Perhaps UA members would be interested in establishing their own network?

Martin

Martin Gollogly

Director, University Alliances

United Kingdom and Ireland