Internationalisation of the Curriculum: Learning from the Experience of Leeds Metropolitan University David Killick Head, International Programmes

Internationalisation – Broadly Speaking Quantitative – numbers Qualitative – 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

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 practice other initiatives resistance level of commitment

Summary