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Internationalisation of the Curriculum:
Learning from the Experience of Leeds Metropolitan University
David KillickHead, International Programmes
Internationalisation – Broadly Speaking
Quantitative – numbersQualitative – graduate attributes
Basic Propositions
Internationalisation requires a strategic approach
Internationalisation is about all students Internationalisation must be embedded
across the disciplines Internationalisation requires a whole
institution approach Internationalisation is not an optional
extra
Internationalisation requires a strategic approach
Aim Five“To develop staff and students’
international opportunities and global perspectives, ensuring that an international, multi-cultural ethos pervades the university.”
Internationalisation Strategy
1. Internationalising learning, teaching and research
2. Enhancing the international student experience
3. Enhancing the international experience of home students
4. Developing and fostering international partnerships and alliances
5. Developing staff capability for internationalisation
6. Effectively recruiting international students
Internationalisation Strategy
1. Internationalising learning, teaching and research
2. Enhancing the international student experience
3. Enhancing the international experience of home students
4. Developing and fostering international partnerships and alliances
5. Developing staff capability for internationalisation
6. Effectively recruiting international students
ALT Strategy
Promoting global citizenship International case studies
across the curriculum All programmes going
through approval or re-approval to indicate how they address the our guidelines on cross-cultural capability
Opportunities for students in 50% of programmes for placements, exchanges etc outside the UK
Sabbaticals for staff to undertake and share research on best pedagogic practice internationally
Support for staff to undertake international volunteering to enhance educational development in an HEI in a developing country
Internationalisation is about all students
“Being open and recognising the value that students bring”
as
“a good starting point” for developing an
inclusive culture.
Internationalisation must be embedded across the disciplines
Guidelines Document
– Cross-cultural capability– Global Perspectives
“Graduate attribute for effective and responsible engagement with a globalising world”
1. Intercultural awareness and the associated communication skills.
2. International and multicultural perspectives on one’s discipline area.
3. Application in practice
Global Perspectives
“seeks to demonstrate the relationships between local actions and global consequences, highlighting inequalities, helping us reflect upon major issues such as global warming, world trade, poverty, sustainable development, and human migration, and promoting a response based on justice and equality not charity.”
“critically examine how the student, through participation on the course and as a member of the university community, is enabled:
to develop the awareness, knowledge and skills to operate in multicultural contexts and across cultural boundaries
to develop the awareness, knowledge and skills to operate in a global context
to develop values commensurate with those of responsible global citizenship.”
Internationalisation requires a whole institution approach
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/internat/reflects/index.htm
Staff Development
Internationalisation is not an optional extra
marketing rationale benchmark institutions student integration student retention reputation doing right by our students best hope
Lessons to date: Positives commitment at the highest level and the associated
strategic drivers the sense of ownership we are creating through
curriculum review rather than through the imposition of outcomes
having somebody tasked to badger away at getting things done
basing internationalisation on a values-based rationale which I suggest has the natural sympathies of most professionals in higher education
linking internationalisation to diversity, and to general good practices in pedagogy for mass higher education
Lessons to Date: Hard bits
sharing the good practiceother initiatives resistance level of commitment
Summary