Dr Simon Paul Atkinson (PFHEA)
Enhancing Institutional Outcomes
The Higher Education Academy issues extensive guidance on supporting the International Student Lifecycle. This is the result of The Teaching International Students project which was a joint initiative between the HEA and the United Kingdom Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) with funding from the Prime Minister’s Initiative 2 (PMI2). “The project focuses on the …
Continue reading “Resources: International Student Lifecycle”
The following article may prove helpful to Personal Tutors wanting to understand how different students respond to the process of cultural adjustment. Yakunina, E. S., Weigold, I. K., Weigold, A., Hercegovac, S. and Elsayed, N. (2013), International Students’ Personal and Multicultural Strengths: Reducing Acculturative Stress and Promoting Adjustment. Journal of Counseling & Development, 91: 216–223. doi: 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2013.00088.x …
Continue reading “Faculty Resource: Update”
We really need to know what we each believe about learning, our personal epistemologies, before we start learning and teaching. Do we really change the way we see, feel, and hear international voices, or do we just make structural adjustments around the edges of our programmes, curricula and induction processes. We build prayer rooms, but …
Continue reading “Sharing Perspectives on Internationalisation”