rajkot markets are becoming competitive and demand for skilled man power is very high for university students exchange programs for students and faculty members have become very important in this scenariointernational relations cell at rajkot based private university rk university has been putting efforts for providing such opportunities to its students and faculty members and have been successful in initiating collaborations with reputed foreign universities in united kingdom canada united states of america and europe 21 students of rk university will visit poland as part of the education program the primary motive is to offer short term exchange programs ranging from 4 to 6 weeks for the students and for the faculty members which would involve core academics hands on experiences industrial visits cultural exposure joint research and also visits to historical sitesmaterializing on these efforts the first batch of 21 students and 1 faculty member will be travelling to wroclaw university of technology wrut poland europe for a period of six weeks the group of 21 involves students from engineering computer applications and management business administration backgroundsthese subjects are a part of the students curriculum at rk university and during the six weeks students would be studying equivalent number of lecture practical hours for the respective subjects and appearing for examinations at wrut the grades and credits obtained by the students at wrut for the respective subjects would be accepted by rk university and the students wouldnt have to appear for the examinations of those subjects at rkuprof nirav mandaviya asst professor school of management rk university would be accompanying these students from rk university to wrut poland he would be delivering lectures at the wroclaw university of technology on topics such as becoming a successful sales leader designing marketing strategy for a new product and understanding consumer behaviour for better marketing decisionsin the coming months we would be having exchange programs with universities in uk and canada as well being the first private university of saurashtra we are also planning to help the students of other colleges in saursahtra to have the opportunity of getting international exposure we believe that a strong network of education organizations in our region and abroad would contribute largely towards positive reforms in holistic education in saurashtra which is one of the key targets of rk university said mr denish patel executive vice president rk university