Impact of internationalisation

You can see internationalisation in the diversity of our staff and student body, in the mobility of staff and students between our campuses and further afield, in the contributions to research fields and in the ambitions that the University has for our students.

In the course design process, we can draw on our diversity and address the wider context of our students' studies and skills development.

Internationalised curriculum

Recognising the position of higher education in a global context means that our courses embrace a broader perspective on the discipline. For our academics, internationalisation of the curriculum takes many forms including the following.

Setting the discipline in context:

• highlighting the cultural context in which key schools of thought developed
• exploring the principles behind commonly accepted UK standards
• inviting students to apply disciplinary concepts in projects set in their own cultural context.

Making cultural assumptions explicit:

• addressing how different belief systems might affect the approach to a discipline
• using international resources to foreground the filter of our own culture that can affect one's perceptions
• mixing students for group work with a view to their experiencing a wider range of approaches to, and conceptions of, the topic.

Demonstrating the international nature of research:

• bringing study materials from a range of sources into classes with a diversity of students to promote the value of accessing foreign language materials and to encourage critical debate.

The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China Campus

Our campuses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (UNMC) and in Ningbo, China (UNNC) offer a broad subject mix that characterises Nottingham's UK presence.

Schools with a presence in Malaysia and China run courses and modules in parallel with Nottingham and all students receive a degree from The University of Nottingham. Quality assurance procedures are managed at school level and details adapted to suit local conditions.

While learning outcomes are shared, the arrangement of modules within courses may vary so that the degree courses offered can be tailored to the local context.

It's been interesting for me to see how the students respond to the material in a different context, and it's really broadened my horizons to the way in which my own research area is received in different cultural settings. I think that has been absolutely invaluable, and has then resulted in new collaborative research projects.

Louise Mullany, School of English Studies