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New courses and research centres were established, we expanded our student accommodation, and students excelled as University representatives


Delivering solutions and agile learning


Against the backdrop of the pandemic our student population grew to 1,428, we launched nine new courses, and completed the second phase of our Student Life Residences expansion. The expansion was built to accommodate more international students. It includes an additional 196 beds, a dedicated student support team and an online helpdesk available to residents. This brings the Middlesex investment into Student Life Residences to 355 million Mauritian rupees (around £6 million).


In March 2021, our immediate response to national lockdown exemplified our institutional culture of agility, with students’ education and wellbeing at the heart of everything we did. Middlesex University Mauritius quickly created platforms for learning and student wellbeing, offering our learners the choice between studying on campus, remotely or a mix for most of the year. Following government guidelines the University and student clubs also ran a range of social events to support our students to stay connected.


Our students continued to excel in industry competitions. Two Middlesex University Mauritius teams reached the finals of the HSBC Business Case Competition and three students were chosen for the Future Fintech Champion Programme. Two Law students joined the Inter-University Student Anti-Corruption Forum, and Middlesex teams came second


and fourth in the Techwar competition. Computer Science student Stephan Heng Shing Chia Yin Cheong competed with the Mauritius team in the regional round of the Huawei ICT competition. His team won the ‘Practice Competition - Cloud Track’ in the final.


Driving positive change through research


In 2020/21 staff in Mauritius completed impactful funded research projects which addressed a range of challenges. We created knowledge on environmental sustainability and educational technology with projects like AgroCarbon, a framework and mobile app for managing carbon emissions from small-scale crop and livestock farming, and TangiBooks, an interactive book series for primary schools which integrates augmented reality.


We established two research centres – the Centre for African Smart Public Value Governance (C4SP), a collaboration between Middlesex University Mauritius and the University of Bern, and the Mauritius Arbitration Academy, aimed at bringing together students and young arbitration practitioners with senior national and international arbitrators under the sponsorship of Middlesex University Mauritius. This year, knowledge exchange events included a Future News Worldwide conference with the British Council Mauritius.


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