Accord with Beijing University gateway for STA to recruit Chinese students |21 May 2015

In the near future the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) can send students on exchange programmes to the Beijing Union University (BUU) and vice versa and the former can also recruit Chinese lecturers as well as students to study here.

This will be possible now that the STA has for the first time signed a memorandum of understanding with the BUU.
Through this agreement with the BUU, the STA will have access to the Tourism College of the BUU. This will make easier the exchange of students and lecturers as well as provide a platform for exchanging research and scientific materials. Students from the two institutions will go on exchange programmes for both studies and work attachments.

The Tourism College of BUU has junior graduates, undergraduates and post graduates students and offers courses for tourism management and tourism planning which will be of great benefit for STA students.

With Chinese students coming to study in Seychelles they are expected to be the best promoters for our country and this is hoped to help increase the number of tourists from China who visit Seychelles.

The agreement was signed earlier this week by the principal secretary for tourism Anne Lafortune and the president of BUU Lu Zhenyang at the headquarters of the Ministry of Tourism at Espace. It took place in the presence of STA principal Flavien Joubert and members of the BUU delegation.

PS Lafortune said that this agreement is yet another stepping stone towards our training development and will allow our students to be empowered with the right knowledge and skills in order to successfully and confidently take employment in the tourism  industry upon completing their studies.

Mr Joubert said that the STA’s priority is to create a base for recruitment.

“At the moment the main priority is not only to have the students’ exchange, but rather create a creditable platform in China which will allow STA to do its marketing for the Chinese students to come to Seychelles,”  Mr Joubert said.

He also noted that the first phase of construction work on the academy is completed and the second phase is about to start and when it is completed, there will be enough room to welcome and accommodate foreign students.