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Developments in

Cooperation and Partnership

A G U S SARYADI , UDIN S. WINATAPU TRA

Introduction

From the beginning Universitas Terbuka (UT) has been designed as a

unique and "incomplete" institution of higher education , meaning that it is a non-

conventional (distance) higher education institution which does not own its own
facilities as conventional (face-to-face) institutions. Therefore, UT needs various
types of external resources to facilitate its operations management. UT does not

have the sufficient resources of its own to support its distance education system,

which allows flexibility as students are not required to attend face-to-face
lectures on campus. For this reason, it is more appropriate to consider UT as a
higher education institution that manages resources available internally as well

as externally. In other words , UT can operate well with the support from its

partner institutions.

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