Thursday, October 5 2023, Widyatama University (UTama) together with The Bristish Institute (TBI) held a signing of a memorandum of understanding, Memorandum of Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding as well as a workshop with UTama students as participants in the Seminar Room Building. A, 4th Floor Widyatama University, Bandung, West Java.
The British Institute, or commonly known as TBI, is an English language course institution that has been established since 1984 in Indonesia. With a success story of more than 39 years, TBI continues to strengthen its foundation in developing its existence by helping millions of students throughout Indonesia and abroad to learn English.
The event opened with a speech from the Rector of Widyatama University, Prof. Dr. H. Dadang Suganda, M.Hum. He expressed his hope that TBI could resolve issues regarding the competence of new students, particularly in terms of communication and interaction in English.
“Hopefully, TBI can help improve student competencies, especially in terms of linguistics and English language structure,” he added.
After Prof. Dadang gave his speech, Widyatama University, represented by Prof. Dadang (Rector of Widyatama University), and TBI, represented by Intan Hartianti (Academic Team Leader of TBI), signed a memorandum of understanding and a memorandum of agreement in the field of strengthening the Tridharma of Higher Education as an effort to face VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity), which will be a threat in the future.
“The current state of the world is chaotic, turbulent, uncertain, and ambiguous. One way to solve VUCA problems is through collaboration, so we welcome the cooperation initiated by TBI,” concluded Prof. Dadang.
The event continued with a workshop titled “Dynamic Presentation in English” presented by Muhammad Juwana, Senior Teacher at TBI. In his presentation, he explained the steps that should be taken during a presentation and how to avoid common mistakes that often go unnoticed, such as intonation, tempo, interaction with the audience, body language, and facial expressions.
