The International Office facilitates internationalisation through support services and inter-institutional relationships that offer benefits to partners and a range of opportunities to local students, staff and researchers enabling them to engage in a connected world.
International Office Services Dictionary:
- Provide information and advice on immigration regulations as they relate to registration as a student at UCT and guide international students in how to apply for or renew a study visa.
- Welcome and induct international students by hosting an orientation programme, preparing them for life in Cape Town, organising social and extra-curricular activities and advising on what to do and who to contact in the event of an emergency or critical incident while in Cape Town.
- Administer the legislated requirement for visa and immigration clearance prior to academic registration as an international student at UCT.
- Collect international students' initial academic fee payment prior to academic registration.
- Manage the invoicing and collection of fees for academic programmes managed by the International Office in terms of signed inter-institutional agreements for exchange or customised international learning programmes.
- Establish and nurture international partnerships for student exchange and customised international learning programmes.
- Manage the approval and governance process for inter-institutional memoranda of understanding and memoranda of agreement for student exchange and customised learning programmes with international partner universities.
- Manage the selection of exchange students outbound from and inbound to UCT under inter-institutional exchange agreements with international partner universities.
- Manage bilateral and multilateral programmes of collaboration with other African universities.
- Manage the Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Programme.