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The Value of Students Rachel Brooks University of Surrey

The Value of Students Rachel Brooks University of Surrey. Official value. Diversity within the classroom and campus Ethical projects, e.g. initiatives at Leeds Met

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The Value of Students Rachel Brooks University of Surrey

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  1. The Value of Students Rachel Brooks University of Surrey

  2. Official value • Diversity within the classroom and campus • Ethical projects, e.g. initiatives at Leeds Met • ‘situate the international student at the heart of the university as a source of cultural capital and intentional diversity, enriching the learning experience….and building a more powerful learning community’ (Brown and Jones, 2007, p.2) • Developing the inter-cultural skills of immobile students

  3. Other, sometimes-competing, values • For revenue • For ‘international’ metrics • As ‘easy’ form of internationalisation • Some tensions…..

  4. Revenue • Historically, mobility as form of overseas aid • E.g. Colombo Plan, 1950s • Shift in past two decades, allowing HEIs in some countries to remain viable • E.g. UK: £2.4 billion from tuition fees of international students • E.g. Australia: several universities rely on international students for over 25 per cent of income

  5. ‘International’ metrics • Increasing importance of international rankings (THE and SJTI) • In constituting the ‘world class university’ (Marginson and van der Wende, 2007) • Geographical mobility assessed in THE rankings • Proportion of international staff;proportion of international students

  6. ‘Easy’ form of internationalisation • Various policy pressures to internationalise • International organisations • EU agenda • UK policy imperatives (PMI2 etc.) • Does not require any structural changes to degree programmes • High external visibility

  7. Some tensions….. • Limited opportunities for inter-cultural learning • Dominance of western bodies of knowledge (Madge et al., 2009) • But rarely one-way • Segregation outside the classroom • Racism and discrimination (Collins, 2006) • Optimum degree of cultural difference? • Exacerbating inequalities? • Between students (strategies to achieve ‘distinction’)? • Between nations?

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