{"id":19,"date":"2015-06-02T13:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/?p=19"},"modified":"2015-06-03T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:01:39","slug":"international-visits-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/2015\/06\/02\/international-visits-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"International visits in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a series of\u00a0exciting visits involving our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/about\/values\/partnerships\/index.html\">Strategic Partners<\/a> this month. Here are some highlights to look out for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 4 June the Director of External Affairs from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unal.edu.co\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">National University of Colombia<\/a> (UNAL) will be visiting the University to discuss the consolidation of existing and development of new activities under our university-wide partnership.<\/li>\n<li>The Vice President Professor Alvaro Cr\u00f3sta and his adviser from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicamp.br\/unicamp\/?language=en\" target=\"_blank\">University of Campinas<\/a> (UNICAMP) will be visiting on 5 June. They are here to meet with the Academic Skills Centre to finalise a collaborative programme of teacher training activities that has been in development for the past year.<\/li>\n<li>Professor Colin Grant,\u00a0Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Internationalisation) is in South Africa this week visiting our Strategic Partner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.ac.za\/english\" target=\"_blank\">Stellenbosch University<\/a>. He will be discussing the next steps in our bilateral agreement and multilateral interests. Whilst in South Africa, he will also be in Pretoria to engage with policy makers.<\/li>\n<li>A delegation from the Faculty of Engineering and Design, led by Dean Professor Gary Hawley, will be in Singapore to meet with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntu.edu.sg\/Pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Nanyang Technological University<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\">National University of Singapore<\/a>.\u00a0Whilst in Singapore, there are also plans to meet with Dyson, Rolls Royce, Airbus and the Singapore Public Water Utility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Exploring new opportunities for collaboration in research, Professor Grant will be in Qatar at the end of the month to meet with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qf.org.qa\/\">Qatar Foundation<\/a>, and in Dubai to meet with alumni and UK universities based there.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a member of staff and have an international visit coming up, we'd like to know. Just send us an email to <a href=\"mailto:a.allonby@bath.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">a.allonby@bath.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a series of\u00a0exciting visits involving our Strategic Partners this month. Here are some highlights to look out for: On 4 June the Director of External Affairs from the\u00a0National University of Colombia (UNAL) will be visiting the University to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}