Past Experiences and Future Prospects of Nutrition Higher Education Collaboration in Asia: Case of Department of Community Nutrition, IPB University

• Published in: Annals of nutrition and metabolism 2019-01, Vol.75, p.39
• Main Author: Marliyati, Sri Anna
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Collaboration; Colleges & universities; Education; Exchanging; Fieldwork; Globalization; Health education; Higher education; Human resources; Nutrition; Quality of education; Students; Studies; Summer
• ISSN: 0250-6807; 1421-9697
• DOI: 10.1159/000501751

Higher education in Indonesia are currently facing global challenges in becomming world-class university. One of the strategies to overcome them is through internationalization of the academic aspect as well as non-academic aspect. Internationalization in higher education may have an impact on the quality of education, human resources, and alumni. The Department of Community Nutrition in FEMA IPB is the pioneer in Nutrition Study Program in Indonesia. Over the years the Department has established collaborations and network with several universities in Asia, Europe, and North America. These collaborations includes exchange of students and lecturers, research, student field work, and visiting professors. Intensive collaboration programs was done with three University, namely Chulalongkorn University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), and the University of Niigata Prefecture. In 2014 to 2017, the collaboration with Chulalongkorn University started with student's exchange program. Every year students from Thailand would come to Indonesia to receive a short course around 1 week. This would apply vice versa, where students from Indonesia would come to Thailand to be enrolled in a 1-semester scholarship funded by the university. With the University of Niigata Prefecture, the collaboration started in 2017 until now, which included Summer Course Program and exchange of lecturers. While with UKM the program started from 2016 until now, especially in student fieldwork from UKM. This year and in the following year the Department of Community Nutrition IPB plan to conduct a Summer Course Program and will invite students from some partner universities with free of charge of accommodations, meal, and local transportation. Moreover, next year the Department will also start to conduct an international Seminar for students and lecturers and will collaborate with other universit to host the program alternately every year.