IUPC Debate Item 5.1 ‘Should BU consider establishing joint/dual degree programmes with global partners?’

Joint Degree One programme Partners 1 &2 &3 Certificate Full definitions of Joint, Double/Multiple and Dual Degrees can be found in QAA’s ‘Qualifications Involving More Than One Degree-Awarding Body Characteristics Statement’, October 2015. Printouts will be provided at the meeting.

Double/Multiple Degree One programme Partner 1 Certificate Partner 2 Certificate Partner 3 Certificate

Dual Degree Initial joint curriculum – Partner 1 or 2 Block 1 – Partner 1 Block 2 – Partner 2 Partner 1 Certificate Partner 2 Certificate

Background (1) Some Benefits Joint/dual degree programmes can: Involve international academic collaboration and can bring important benefits to students, professors, institutions, and national and regional education systems Be seen by some as an extension of exchange and mobility programmes Utilise the expertise of two or more universities shapes the academic programme Result in curriculum innovation, exchanges of professors and researchers and access to expertise and networks of the partner university Increase an institution’s reputation and ranking as an international university by collaborating with partners of equal or greater status Points in the Background section taken from ‘Are double or multiple degrees leading to ‘discount degrees’?’, University World News, Jane Knight, October 2014, Issue No:337

Background (2) Some Questions/Concerns Different regulatory systems, academic calendars, quality assurance and accreditation schemes, credit systems, tuition and scholarship programmes, teaching approaches, entrance and examination requirements, language of instruction and thesis or dissertation supervision Question of best method of accreditation of double/multiple degree programmes – national, binational, regional or international accreditation? Are these programmes sustainable without additional internal or external supplementary funding?

Provision of Double/Dual Degrees at Alliance Universities Alliance University Double/joint degree programme Cardiff Metropolitan University ? Coventry University yes Kingston University Liverpool John Moores University Manchester Metropolitan University Nottingham Trent University Oxford Brookes University Plymouth University Sheffield Hallam University Teesside University The Open University University of Greenwich University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield University of Lincoln University of Portsmouth University of Salford University of South Wales University of the West of England

IUPC Debate Item: ‘Should BU consider establishing joint/dual degree programmes with global partners?’

Themes for Debate What is the strategic value of establishing joint/dual degree programmes with global partners? What are the risks, and how can they be mitigated? Which programmes, partners and countries would most lend themselves to such arrangements?