Sea Teacher Program Students flooded UAD

After COVID-19 was officially declared ended, the Pre-Service Student Teacher Exchange in Southeast Asia (Sea Teacher) program students’ number surged rocketly. Sea-teacher is a yearly event that gives opportunities to Southeast Asian students to study for a semester at partner Southeast Asian universities.
Since the first quarter of the year, students from UAD’s partner universities from the Philippines, and Thailand came to UAD. Coordinated by the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) of UAD, They conducted an internship at UAD’s partner schools. At schools, they got teaching experiences, class observation, and supervision.
During their stay, accompanied by international buddies, they also will have an excursion to historical places. On 7 November, for the third time, UAD welcomed Sea Teacher program students from Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University (VRU), Thailand. They have been scheduled to teach at SD Muhammadiyah Wirobrajan 3 Yogyakarta for a month.
Muhammad Sayuti, S.Pd., M.Pd., M.Ed., Ph.D. (The Dean of FKIP) delivered his support during the opening ceremony. He stated, “This program opened vast cooperation among UAD and Southeast Asian universities and embraced friendship among the students.”

Prof. Henk-Jan Guchelaar from Leiden University Medical Center welcomed the UAD delegation to discuss the potential for collaboration and university governance. This meeting was initiated by Prof. Dyah Aryani Perwitasari as the dean of Faculty of Pharmacy who is also one of the UAD delegates. The meeting discussed university governance during the pandemic, especially how educational institutions obtain alternative sources of funding. Then the discussion continued by discussing the potential for cooperation between UAD and Leiden University Medical Center in the academic field and student mobility. The potential cooperation schemes discussed include joint/double degree, joint research/publication/seminar, visiting professor, student mobility, scholarship for Ph.D program, credit transfer, summer camp. UAD through the Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Psychology has collaborated with Leiden University Medical Center since 2015, and the discussion this time was to formulate the new cooperation in the current pandemic era. Previously, UAD had invited Professor Adrian A. Kaptein from Leiden University Medical Center as visiting professor in 2013.
The UAD delegation led by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Rusyidi Umar, Ph.D. welcomed by the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague to discuss potential collaborations. The focus of this meeting is to build a network of collaborations, especially in the academic field. In addition to discussing the cooperation between UAD and the Indonesian Embassy, the delegation also discussed the potential for foreign grants, such as Erasmus Plus. UAD has received 4 Erasmus grants in different schemes, in 2017 UAD received an Erasmus grant on entrepreneurship, in 2019 it received a grant on disaster management, in 2020 it received a grant on leadership, most recently UAD received a scholarship on student mobility. The UAD delegation hoped that the meeting could open up new opportunities to get other grants.







