The Teaching International Students Project is a joint initiative between the Higher Education Academy and the United Kingdom Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) with funding from the Prime Minister's Initiative 2 (PMI2). It is a two year project, hosted and co-funded by the Higher Education Academy.
The project focuses on the ways that lecturers and other teaching staff can maintain and improve the quality of teaching and learning for international students. This is done thorough providing guidance and information about how to meet the diverse learning needs of international students.
TIS activities
The TIS project activities include:
- the ‘International Student Lifecycle' Resources Bank
- a series of collaborative events with Academy Subject Centres and other higher education organisations
- the development of a community of practice
Details about the members of the project team.
In July Janette Ryan and Jude Carroll will be speaking at the UKCISA Conference on Building Connections: new ways of working together for international students
Janette Ryan considers the experiences of international students studying at postgraduate level in the UK in the recent edition of Exchange magazine.
