(Photo 1) Joint curriculum (Global Leadership & Management Program) for graduate students in TU MBA
- Joint Curriculum for MBA students at Tribhuvan University, Nepal
- Seminar on strengthening the comprehensive competence of local communities with Nepal Agricultural University
Handong Global University (President Chang Soon Heung) offered graduate students in Tribhuvan University (hereinafter TU) MBA course in Kathmandu, Nepal, joint curriculum (Global Leadership & Management Program) from January 16th (Wed.) to 18th (Fri.). It conducted a seminar on comprehensive regional leadership development for local leaders with the Agriculture and Forestry University (hereinafter AFU) in Chitwan, Nepal from January 20th (Sat) to 21 th (Sun) as well.
(Photo 2) Consulting on social innovation items designed by TU MBA students
Professor Yoo, Kee-Seon and three professors from Handong Global University conducted winter education courses for three days under the theme of "Regional Development through Social Innovation." Since March 2014, this course has been prepared in accordance with the need to establish a field-based convergence curriculum in consideration of the socioeconomic environment. The aim of this course is to foster management talents and create sustainable social innovation companies based on social responsibility and business ethics. The students who participated in this camp presented their plans for actualization of the social innovation items they planned, and they also had a time to revise and supplement it by receiving real-time lectures and consultations through connecting the theoretical and strategic plans for problem solving with the field projects.
In the meeting for the improvement of the curriculum that all of the participating professors attended together, they discussed the problems and remedies of the joint curriculum so far. "The TU MBA program, which is holding a joint curricular with the Handong Global University is gaining great popularity among future leaders who dream of Nepal's national development and continues to increase in demand," said Mahananda Charlie, a head professor in the TU MBA program. He also stated, "We believe that our experience and curriculum must be well organized as we are responsible for establishing a foundation for the creation and settlement of this curriculum at universities in other parts of Nepal."
(Photo 3) Visiting TU MBA students and the Women's Skills Development Organization
"For the last five years, we have been working with TU MBA staff to develop a joint curriculum and experimenting with developing countries' convergence curriculum,” said Professor Yoo, Kee-Seon of Handong Global University, head of Nepal joint curriculum. “In the future, I hope that the joint curriculum will be well established through wider cooperation, which will serve as the basis for the development of higher education in Nepal as well as in developing countries as a whole."
In cooperation with the Nepal AFU, we conducted a 'Seminar on Enhancing the Capacity of the Local Communities' for the Chitwan area leaders and local residents. This seminar aims to foster social innovation awareness among Nepalese people and to provide an education to achieve sustainable development in a rapidly changing global environment by cooperating with local universities to provide and field for enhancing the local leaders’ competitiveness.
(Photo 4) In cooperation with Nepal AFU, a seminar on strengthening the competitiveness of the local communities in the Chittwan region and local residents
Professor AFU Thunder Suresa said, "Through comprehensive regional development projects with Handong Global University, we have had the opportunity to experience the reality of the local community in Nepal and the problems faced by the local people. It is imperative that local leaders in Nepal strengthen their capacity to create an autogenous and sustainable community, and universities as higher education institutions are responsible for providing such education." In this seminar, we invited Professor Thunder Suresa of AFU to give lectures on mushroom cultivation and community business model suitable for the local area and had time to interact with local residents.
* UNESCO UNITWIN (University Twinning and Networking) was established in 1992 with the aim of universities in developed countries supporting the universities in developing countries by networking with them to reduce the knowledge gap and to develop self-reliance. In Korea, Handong Global University was designated as the first university in Korea to manage UNITWIN in 2007, and Sookmyung Women's University in 2014 and Korea Broadcasting and Telecommunications University in 2017 as UNITWIN host universities.
* As part of the Ministry of Education's ODA program, Handong Global University has signed agreements with universities in developing countries, centering on the government's key partners, among the low-income countries classified by the World Bank, to strengthen each university’s capacity, and has established a regional base center in developing countries. Handong Global University is currently helping 71 universities and institutions in 28 developing countries (as of March 2018).
