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Internationalising Higher Education:
Framework for Action
Dr Helen May and Dr Janette Ryan,
Higher Education Academy
8 May 2014
Aims of this session
• To provide an insight into the HEA’s
internationalising HE framework.
• To provide an opportunity for you to help shape
the framework at a critical phase in its
development.
• To stimulate dialogue and debate about core
internationalisation issues.
• To consider how the framework may be best
used as an enhancement tool in HE.
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Vision to action…..
Promoting a high quality, equitable and global
learning experience for all students studying UK
programmes across the world.
Enhancing the quality of learning and teaching:
Onshore
Offshore
Inspire and assist in enhancing the process of
internationalising higher education.
To the benefit of the students, staff, institutions
and the wider society.
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Internationalisation Strategic
Priorities (PVC survey, Oct 12)
Improve
student
recruitment
Enhance
research
quality
Promote
cultural
diversity
Develop the
curriculum
Establish an
international
presence
Strategy
Enhance
teaching
quality
Role of the framework
To shape policy and practice to enhance
the experience of…..
…..students
coming to the
UK to study.
…..students
studying UK
programmes
offshore.
…..all students
by providing a
globalised
education.
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Aims and objectives
Aim
• To inspire and assist the sector in the process of
internationalising HE, facilitating the achievement of a high
quality, equitable and global learning experience for all
students studying UK HE programmes, irrespective of their
geographical location.
Objectives
 To recognise and build on the quality and variety of
internationalisation policy and practice in higher education;
 To foster collegial approaches to education, research and
partnership that transcend national and international
boundaries;
 To acknowledge the on-going individual and institutional roles
and responsibilities required to realise internationalisation.
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Internationalising HE: Framework for action
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Consultation responses to date
• 154 responses to date; 102 fully completed
• From 70 HE institutions
• When asked is the framework needed:
61% YES; 4% NO; 35% abstain
• Approximately 60% academic roles; 25% senior
management roles; professional services 10%;
students 1%; other 4%
• Request for practical examples and articulation of
benefits for multiple audiences within the
framework.
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How would you envisage using the
framework……..
Curriculum
development and
review tool
To focus/refocus
or direct the
agenda
Guideline for best
practice in the
UK
Reference point
for strategic
development of
policy & practice
To stimulate
reflective debate
/staff
development
Internal audit/tool
for
benchmarking/
target setting
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Key messages
The framework aspires to having regard for:
There is a need to raise
the status of learning
and teaching in the
agenda.
HE is a global academic
community, in which
staff and students are
members.
Internationalising HE is
a joint responsibility
with implications for
all staff and students,
functions and services.
Internationalising HE is
a process of continual
enhancement.
Collaboration are
essential to the
internationalising of HE.
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Raising the profile of learning and
teaching in internationalisation
 Agenda is dominated by international recruitment,
research, and standing.
 The quality of learning and teaching (both onshore and
offshore) is significant to enhancing the student (and
staff) experience but also to achieving these drivers.
 Learning is enriched by a diverse student and staff body.
 Encompasses all aspects of students’ lives inside and
outside the classroom (formal and informal curriculum).
How can we raise the profile of learning and teaching in
internationalisation?
HE is a global academic community
of staff and students
Boundaries are shifting, not ‘international’ vs ‘home’.
Need to critique and address a ‘deficit’ led approach.
Increase in transnational education and off shore students.
Students need to think of themselves as global and envision
possible international connections and/or futures.
 Staff are increasingly international or have international
experience.
 International collaborations (involving staff and students) can
arguably benefit learning and teaching.
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 How can we encourage all staff and students to think of
themselves as being part of a global academic community?
Collaboration is essential to
internationalising HE
 More institutions are working at local, regional, national or
global level, in teaching and research, seeking to increase
the number and quality of their partnerships.
 Increasing international operations across institutions –
groupings and consortia.
 However there are mixed institutional messages –
collaboration versus competition.
 Fresh thinking is required to facilitate and overcome
barriers to collaborative ways of working.
 How can we facilitate collaboration and collegiality in
internationalisation?
Internationalising HE is a process
of continual enhancement
 Framework offers a tool for quality enhancement
not assurance.
 Intends to complements the effective and diverse
existing developments across the sector.
 Promotes a continual process, informed by, as well
as helping to shape, the global context.
 How do we encourage internationalisation to be
addressed as a process of continual enhancement?
Internationalising HE is a joint
responsibility
 The process arguably requires a holistic approach as
there are implications for all staff and students,
functions and services.
 Internationalising the curriculum, has implications for
individuals and organisations.
 Attention is needed across the academic lifecycle (for
staff and students) from pre-arrival to exit.
 This is pertinent to all staff and all students (and
students as peers).
How can we ensure that everyone is committed and
takes joint responsibility for internationalising HE?
Key themes and questions
The framework aspires to promote:
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the status of learning and teaching
HE as a global academic community
collaboration
Internationalisation as a process
A collective responsibility.
1. Is this something your institution could/do aspire to?
2. How are you making, or could you make this
aspiration a reality?
3. How do, or will, you measure its success?
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Plenary
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Framework timescale
July 13 –
Feb 14
Mar –
May 14
May –
June 14
Develop
Consult
Revise
July 2-3
2014
Launch
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Plenary
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