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| signing of the MoU were: Prof Theresa Catalano (NLU); Prof Edmund Hamann (NLU); Prof Stephanie Burton, Vice Principal at UP and Prof Irma Eloff, Dean of the Faculty of Education at UP. |
"We are proud to be partnering with UNL and look forward to strengthening the academic ties around education research and postgraduate studies between the institutions," says Prof Irma Eloff, Dean of the Faculty of Education.
Present at the MoU signing were Prof Stephanie Burton, Vice Principal and Prof Irma Eloff, Dean of the Faculty of Education at UP, as well as Prof Edmund Hamann, Associate Professor of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education at NLU and Prof Theresa Catalano, Assistant Professor of Second Language Education in Applied Linguistics at NLU. With them were 12 of their postgraduate students who participated in the postgraduate support sessions in mixed methods, held at the Faculty of Education between 8 and 12 July 2013. Other staff members from the Faculty of Education who were involved in the process of the MoU were also present at the event.
Both universities were inspired by the extensive possibilities offered by the international cooperation and recognised the need to develop and nurture new partnerships and to share human and material resources, with the aim to promote international understanding, contribute to the pool of global knowledge and to advance the development of both countries and the world.
In the spirit of this challenge and responsibility, both institutions acknowledged the similarities in the scholarly pursuits of the two universities and the desire to promote an inter-institutional cooperation, scientific and cultural exchange and mutual understanding and respect between the citizens of South Africa and the United States of America
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