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Bookmark, Email, Print or ShareOver 300 Saudi students set for WIT over next four years
The first 80 of over 300 students from Saudi Arabia are due to arrive in the south east next September to begin four years of study at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT).
The students will begin their time in Ireland with a 12-month programme of intensive English language tuition. After that, they will pursue three-year degree programmes across a range of disciplines.
It is planned that a similar number of additional students will arrive at the start of each subsequent academic year so that there will quickly be some 320 Saudi students in Waterford.
The students’ time in Ireland is governed by an agreement reached between Waterford Institute of Technology, counterpart Institutes in Athlone and Galway and the Technical Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
TVTC is a Saudi government institution that develops the kingdom’s workforce and the students will be funded under the King Abdullah scholarship programme. Spouses of the scholarship students will also attend English language classes in their first years to support assimilation.
“We currently have over 600 international students from over 60 countries and among these are 22 students from Saudi Arabia whose compatriots will join them in the autumn as we welcome some 80 degree students from the Technical Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) to Waterford.”
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