Events

A Joint seminar organised by BMAF Internationalisation SIG and the ‘Teaching International Students’ project.

Seminar co-leaders: Julia Pointon, DeMontfort University & Jude Carroll from Teaching International Students project.

Programme

Session 1:  ‘I never expected that.’

An interactive session linking research findings by Julia Pointon on international students’ expectations/ experiences before, during and after they gain UK awards with teaching practices in UK unversities. 

Session 2: 'I never knew that!'

The session hears from students from Saudi Arabia about their experiences and considers the more generic issue as to whether and how knowing about students’ academic experiences before travelling to the UK is beneficial - and what about the dangers?
Session 3:   'I know it's not something we usually talk about but....'

This is an open space for discussion of issues linked to assessment and especially, challenges that are not often discussed such as:

• Assessment standards:  are we passing people we should more rightly fail?
• Validity:  are we marking language or content?
• Fairness:  are we setting some students up to always get the lowest grades?
• Plagiarism:  Are their ways to demonstrate graduate skills for citation and attribution without requiring skilful use of Harvard-type referencing?
• Adaptation? :  Must students do all the changing or do teachers, too, need to adapt?  Can teachers adapt what they think as well as what they do?

The session will end with an evaluation of the relative benefits of this type of open discussion and pointing to resources and good practice designed to address these issues.

The seminar is now fully booked but if you wish to be put on a waiting list to be informed in the event of any cancellations resulting in places becoming available, please contact bmaf@brookes.ac.uk

Download the Programme (100kb .docx)

See below for link to Julia Pointon's presentation on her research.

Julia Pointon' s Research (audio video presentation)

Presentation Slides (15mb .ppt)