Bahraini graduates celebrated at prestigious event
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:51:00 GMT
One of the University's most prestigious partners hosted an alumni celebration for Huddersfield graduates in October.
The Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and the University of Huddersfield's partnership stretches back over 40 years and the alumni event helped to celebrate the success of engineering scholars at the University.
Around 70 Bahraini graduates of Huddersfield attended on the night which was held at the BAPCO club in Awali. Among guests from the University of Huddersfield were Professor David Taylor, Dean of International Development and Hisham Zubari, Acting General Manager for HR and Admin at BAPCO.
Mr Zubari said that Bapco is proud of the close relationship with the University of Huddersfield for many years. "Bapco is delighted to offer assistance in setting up the evening and looks forward to a continuing relationship with the University in the future".
Each year the University offers four or five places to working engineers at BAPCO, in order to further their education and present the new scholars with a different working environment from that in Bahrain.
The success of this relationship has been recognised by both the University and the hierarchy of BAPCO. Their Senior Career Development Specialist, Bill Chalmers has nothing but praise for the setup at the University:
"As a company, we see offering students international exposure an important part of the whole education process. Not only are they engaging in academic challenges, the students interact with people from many different cultures, from different parts of the world.
"What we find is that this university is particularly good at welcoming international students. The whole student experience here is friendly, from the international office through to lecturers. The service is settling for new students; we find the academic staff here very supportive. They are very demanding in terms of what their standards are, and we've done a lot of work in identifying some of the pre-requisites such as maths and English that the students need in place to flourish here."
