Delegation of Webster University (USA), led by Vice-President Peter Maher, today arrived in Tashkent. The delegation includes the dean of George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology Simmon Cummings and the dean of the School of Education Brenda Fife, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.
The purpose of the visit is reportedly to discuss with the Uzbek partners of technical, legal and financial matters related to the opening of the Webster University branch in Tashkent starting from the 2018 academic year in September.
As reported earlier, the agreement was signed between the Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education and Webster University on the opening of the branch of the American university in Tashkent following the Uzbek-American business forum held during the September visit of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to New York.
The visiting delegation will hold several meetings in the ministries of higher and secondary education, preschool education and information technology and communications and discuss the academic curricula of the Webster University’s branch.
The delegation is also expected to visit a number of Uzbek universities (University of World Languages, Tashkent Economic University) and branches of foreign universities (Inha University, Turin Polytechnic University, Singapore Management Institute, Westminster University) to familiarize themselves with their academic processes.
Tashkent branch of Webster University will offer undergraduate and graduate English language programs in Information Technologies, Information Security, Media Communications, Business, Natural Sciences and Teacher Education, and engage the teachers from the American university and local teachers.
Webster University was founded in 1915 in St. Louis, Missouri. It has seven overseas branches in Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Holland, China, Thailand and Ghana. The university is ranked 24th in the ranking of the best American universities in 2017.
