High Level Delegation from German University Visits NUST

Prof Herbert Dreher, President of DHBW’s Ravensburg Campus, and Prof Stephan Schenkel. President of the DHBW Karlsruhe campus, travelled to Namibia in January 2024 to explore new avenues of cooperation with NUST. Their aim was to deepen the decade-long collaboration with the Namibian university which began in 2014. Prof Dreher and Prof Schenkel were accompanied by the Heads of International Relations of their respective campuses.

DHBW is a cooperative state university of the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, that boasts 12 campuses across the region, with an enrolment of approximately 34 000 students. The German institution boasts 9000 partner companies throughout the European nation. It was the first higher education institution in Germany to combine practical workplace training and academic study. This allows DHBW to achieve a close integration of theory and practice, an essential aspect of the globally renowned dual studies system. DHBW offers a broad range of academic programmes including business, engineering and social work.

“We have been able to successfully implement the dual studies system, and this is hugely beneficial for our graduates in terms of their productivity and employability,” Prof Dreher said during a meeting with the NUST management. He added that DHBW would be willing to share their experiences and lessons learned with NUST should the Namibian university plan to implement the dual studies system.