“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

You need the mindset that says, ‘The person I’m talking to isn’t like me and I need to understand what they are like and then work with them.’

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

KEY SKILLS IN DEVELOPING NEXT GENERATION OF GLOBAL GRADUATES

Council for Higher Education, 2011

The most aspirational students are taking up opportunities to gain rich life experiences and develop life-skills through exposure to different cultures and environments... Council for Industry and Higher Education

Photo: Education Scotland

A two-stage process

Stage 1 - Complete an Action PlanDescribe in your online Action Plan the activities the school intends to undertake as part of its application for the Full Award. This plan will need to be approved by a British Council approved assessor.This is normally completed before or at the start of a new academic year.It must contain a minimum of seven curriculum-based international activities that will take place in the next curriculum year. One of these activities should be based around languages.

Stage 2 - Complete the Impact Evaluation Provide evidence of the completed activities and fully illustrate the impact they have had on the school, educators, young people and the local or international community, including any relevant learning outcomes.

This is due in at the end of the school year in July.

No man is an island; every man is a piece of the continent, a part ofthe main.

-John Donne-

Before you finish eating breakfast this morning, you’ve depended onmore than half the world.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may implycompromise.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Internationalism in education

Probus 16th November 2012

“To be indispensable in a global economy, a graduate needs to be independent minded, creative, a thinker who will make a difference, not waiting to be told what to do.”

“Global leaders need specific knowledge about global affairs and how global forces shape our lives. Global competency means having an ‘academic’ dimension relating to knowledge and understanding of world history, geography, and global topics such as health.

Challenges?• 2000: Finland, Japan, South Korea• 2003: Finland, Hong Kong, Finland• 2006: South Korea, Taipei, Finland• 2009: Shanghai, Shanghai, Shanghai

Qualitative comparisons.......

Source: http://www.nesetweb.eu/news/pisa-focus

“For example, the government is funding

a Digital Schools scheme to provide copyright-free electronic text-books to children in 380 schools.

“ one of the world's highest-rated education

systems aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum.By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be delivered on screen

"Scotland needs globalised citizens who can go out confidently on the world stage and win business to grow Scotland's exports. Language learning is a vital part of creating that outward-looking mindset.“

Lloyd Anderson, director of British Council Scotland

“....nearly all pupils from secondary schools in many European countries learn two or more foreign languages. More than half of senior secondary UK school pupils do not study foreign languages” (Herald, May 2012)

“£500m 'language tax' cost to Scots economy”

Source: BBC News website, accessed, 12.11.12

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou