Hit by delays, Australian varsity hopes to break fresh ground with GIFT City campus

Throwing further airy connected value of a campus, she said, “As students commencement inquiring (about courses), you privation to say, ‘look, travel to the field and person a look, speech to our module staff…’ that (a campus) enables america to bash that,” McCollim added.

Along with its chap Australian institute – Deakin University, UOW is among the archetypal overseas universities to denote their offshore campuses astatine the Gujarat International Finance Tech (GIFT) City.

The recently built GIFT City field successful Gandhinagar. (Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

While Deakin University has already rolled retired its archetypal 2 postgraduate programmes — Cyber Security and Business Analytics — astatine GIFT City, hardly a kilometre from the UOW campus, successful July, UOW volition commencement its 2 postgraduate programmes — Computing and Financial Technology — successful November.

UOW authorities judge the delay, particularly successful airy of Deakin University’s earlier launch, volition impact its lawsuit lone with respect to students who conscionable privation to person Australian education, irrespective of the course.

“I deliberation the information that we person offered precise antithetic courses is truly helpful…But if a pupil conscionable wanted Australian acquisition and didn’t attraction what they’re studying, sure, absolutely, they mightiness beryllium with Deakin present (and not UOW), but I deliberation we person deliberately chosen precise antithetic things to pat into the needs of students who person a tendency to survey those 2 domains (computing and fintech),” McCollim said.

The borderline UOW offers implicit Deakin University, she believes, is the ranking. “We are precise arrogant of our ranking. Being among the apical 1% universities worldwide…I deliberation with the acquisition we person with planetary field operations, we cognize however to onslaught a equilibrium betwixt Australian acquisition and tailoring to the needs of the students here. And I deliberation that is thing we person done good successful different countries. Though, the much the merrier. We person chosen courses antithetic from the ones offered by Deakins. And that gives the students the quality to take betwixt 2 antithetic institutions,” McCollim added.

The University of Wollongong has received implicit 700 applications for its 2 postgraduate programmes with 50 seats each. UOW India has besides introduced ‘The InAugural Scholarship,’ which offers fiscal benefits to the students.

From November 2024, UOW India volition connection Master of Computing (Data Analytics), Graduate Certificate successful Computing, Master of Financial Technology, extended Master of Financial Technology, and Graduate Certificate successful Financial Technology.

As reported by The Indian Express, the UOC rescheduled the commencement of its postgraduate programmes to November owed to “severe monsoon upwind and h2o logging”, which resulted successful “substantial delays successful connecting indispensable services to its field building”. The assemblage had, instead, organised a bid of events to springiness students an acquisition of field beingness successful the run-up to the November launch.

The UOW India has partnered with IBM which volition alteration the students to summation entree to IBM’s Innovation Centre for Education (ICE), which provides cutting-edge grooming successful emerging technologies similar AI, unreality computing, cyber security, and blockchain. The concern volition besides connection students placement opportunities, said officials.