Institutional Joint Working - Past Initiatives

Careers Professional Network

Through the universities' career centres, students could benefit from more information to equip them for careers that are becoming increasingly global. Similarly, employers could also be assisted in their graduate recruitment across the world through inter-agency referrals. A meeting of career development professionals of these universities was held to discuss areas of collaboration so as to facilitate global career development and employment needs of students and employers. 

VP Research Meeting

Senior Research Heads of IARU universities met to discuss various issues related to the running of research-intensive universities.  Topics discussed included:

• Frameworks for collaboration - common problems and solutions, mechanisms to facilitate collaborative research, general understanding of constraints in each country/region – such as contract jurisdictions, intellectual property laws
• Mechanisms to manage and direct research to achieve university strategic objectives
• Crisis management - the role of universities in assisting government to respond to crises - eg avian influenza, earthquakes/tsunamis, wars/civil unrest in neighbouring countries