The MA International Higher Education is a two year, part time programme which startes in July for professionals and managers involved in international activities across further and higher education institutions:
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international office staff and student advisors
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international partnership managers and administrators
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education developers
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agents and consultants
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academics interested in expanding their knowledge for leadership, teaching and research in the field.
I am absolutely delighted that I decided to take this MA and have found the work both challenging and enlightening in equal measures. … I enjoy the mix of live clips, text and research links …
The currency of the information means that it is already feeding back into my daily job as Course Leader and I am able to contribute in an informed way to discussions surrounding Internationalisation. Overall I enjoy the relative freedom of planning my own workload and can just about fit it around my work/life balance.
Sarah Charles: Course Leader BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Technology, Arts University Bournemouth
The MA International Higher Education provides a unique opportunity to develop your professional expertise and knowledge in a key area of higher education. Drawing on Nottingham’s experience at the forefront of advances in international and transnational higher education over the past two decades, this course will strengthen your ability to contribute effectively to this rapidly developing field, based on analysis of research, policy and institutional strategies.
If you are keen to understand how to develop, implement and evaluate strategies for international and transnational higher education, how to develop and manage courses abroad, or how you or your organisation should relate to international students, then the MA International Higher Education is for you.
You will build on and analyse your own professional experience, and those of other participants from a range of international higher education backgrounds. You will investigate practices, policies and theories of higher education and its increasingly international role in contemporary global society. You will also draw on the expertise of staff from across the University of Nottingham with extensive knowledge and experience in international and transnational higher education, and who have made key contributions to The University's internationalisation.
We now have campuses in China and Malaysia, as well as the UK, and we host students from around 150 countries.
The course aims to:
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provide opportunities for you to gain professionally-relevant knowledge, understanding and skills in international higher education
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offer a critical map of the field of higher education and how and why it is changing in the context of internationalisation and globalisation
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explore a range of issues, strategies and practices in the organisation, management, and administration of higher education institutions in the context of internationalisation and globalisation
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combine the perspectives of higher educational practitioners, policy makers, managers and researchers
The objectives of the course are that you will:
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be aware and understand the major themes, issues and debates in international and transnational higher education
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have explored the interface between policy, scholarly research and practice in relation to international and transnational higher education
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understand the continuities and discontinuities between policy, practice and research
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be prepared to develop, challenge and question policies, strategies, practice and research
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be confident in constructing arguments about international and transnational higher education based on evidence and theory
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be able to formulate and investigate significant research questions about international and transnational higher education
This course is taught by leading international scholars, academic leaders and managers who are based in the Centre for Research in Higher, Adult and Vocational Education, and across the University. It takes a case-based approach - topics for assignment work are determined by course participants, drawing upon their own interests and work in international/transnational higher education.
This course is professionally and intellectually valuable in its own right, but is also ideal preparation for a PhD in Higher Education.