The Deakin Lancaster Indonesia College (DLI) campus – first introduced in January 2024 – formally opened in Bandung, West Java on February 26. Positioned an hour from Jakarta by high-speed rail, programs on the campus will start in September, initially specializing in enterprise and data expertise.
It marks the primary UK-Australian transnational schooling (TNE) enterprise in Indonesia, and signifies that college students will be capable to undertake twin undergraduate applications from Deakin and Lancaster Universities with out having to go away their house nation.
DLI’s inaugural rector Greg Barton stated the partnership was a “testomony to how worldwide schooling may be each wonderful and accessible”.
“Our new Bandung campus unites the very best of British and Australian tutorial traditions, experience and apply, to carry an distinctive worldwide instructional expertise inside attain in Indonesia,” he stated.
In the meantime, the vice-chancellors of Deakin and Lancaster hailed DLI’s launch as a milestone for 2 world-leading establishments becoming a member of forces.
Iain Martin, vice-chancellor of Deakin College, stated that the campus would “see college students empowered by a very world class tutorial expertise”.
Andy Schofield, vice-chancellor of Lancaster College, stated the launch marked “a very worldwide celebration of what may be achieved when main world universities mix their analysis excellence and instructing strengths to offer contemporary new alternatives for development”.
Our new Bandung campus unites the very best of British and Australian tutorial traditions, experience and apply
Greg Barton, DLI
In a put up on LinkedIn, Lancaster College’s pro-vice chancellor Simon Man stated he was “delighted to carry 5 years work to fruition with the launch of our campus in Indonesia in partnership with Deakin College“.
And he stated he was “grateful” to the enterprise’s TNE associate Navitas for serving to to make the campus a actuality.
Navitas’s CEO of college partnerships for Australasia, Malcolm Baigent, stated the “landmark” partnership proffered “new prospects” for TNE sooner or later.
“Kudos to the DLI group who’ve actually introduced this glorious new campus to life,” he wrote in a LinkedIn put up.
UK- and Australian-Indonesian authorities officers additionally welcomed DLI’s launch, marking it out as a solution to “widen” Indonesian college students’ entry to schooling.
The British ambassador to Indonesia, Dominic Jermey, stated that the UK – as a “world chief” in TNE – had been “proud” to help the DLI challenge since its starting. “It’s a nice instance of how the UK and Indonesia are strengthening collaboration on increased schooling, innovation and analysis,” he added.
In the meantime, Australian Cost d’Affaires to Indonesia Gita Kamath confused that schooling was “very important” to Australia’s relationship with Indonesia.
“Deakin College’s joint initiative with the UK’s Lancaster College will widen Indonesian college students’ entry to the worldwide schooling expertise, consistent with the Indonesian authorities’s precedence of advancing human capital improvement by way of schooling,” she stated.
