An Engaging International Experience

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An Engaging International Experience
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Challenges Opportunities

• International students projections
• 2005/06 Operational Plan 3,500
• 2025 projections of 400 increase in demand (60
  of this from Asia)
• c17,500 here

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Challenges Opportunities

• Increasing diversity of the home student body
• Impact of enlarged EU (and EU attempts to
  homogenise HE structures and practices)

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Challenges Opportunities

• Challenges are there for all
• University
• Staff
• International/EU students
• Home students
• Opportunities are there for all.

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The Real Opportunity

• HEFCE International Strategy
• 2003-08
• The educational value gained from a greater
  internationalisation of HE is important to the
  development of our students and the sector.

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The Real Opportunity

• HEFCE International Strategy
• 2003-08
• International students add cultural and
  intellectual value to our society

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The Real Opportunity

• For the University
• International students add cultural and
  intellectual value to our university

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The Areas of Opportunity

• Student exchanges
• Staff exchanges
• Research collaborations
• Curriculum enhancement
• LTA strategy development
• Intercultural engagement

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The Real Challenge

• Engaging with the opportunities

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• Internationalising learning, teaching and
  research
• Enhancing the international student experience
• Enhancing the international experience of home
  students
• Developing and fostering international
  partnerships and alliances
• Developing staff capability for
  internationalisation
• Effectively recruiting international students

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• Internationalising learning, teaching and
  research
• Enhancing the international student experience
• Enhancing the international experience of home
  students
• Developing and fostering international
  partnerships and alliances
• Developing staff capability for
  internationalisation
• Effectively recruiting international students

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Some Barriers to Engagement

• Cultural adaptation
• Cultural impacts on learning
• Inclusion
• Educational Equality/ Fairness

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Cultural adaptation

• Rules of engagement
• Culture Shock

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Variables in the Rules of Engagement

• Behaviours
• Haptics
• Proxemics
• Chronemics

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Variables in the Rules of Engagement

• Behaviours
• Haptics
• Proxemics
• Chronemics
• Hofstede
• Uncertainty avoidance
• Power Distance
• Masculinity-Femininity
• Individualism-Collectivism

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Cultural adaptation

• Rules of engagement
• Culture Shock

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Cultural Impacts on Learning

• Educational hierarchies/ roles
• Learning Styles
• Schema

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Inclusion
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Inclusion
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Inclusion
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Inclusion

• Stereotypes
• Prejudices
• Discrimination

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Equality/ Fairness

• Balances within the curriculum
• Assessment mechanisms
• Assessment criteria

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An Engaging International Experience