Navigation

636days since
Improving Learning for All

News

Please subscribe to our RSS feed to keep up to date with the latest developments to the site and the event.
 

Participate

If you have a paper or link relevant to the conference please email the information to paul.osborne@smu.ac.uk for consideration of it's inclusion on this site.

Keep up to date with event pre-readings and interesting documents and weblinks by clicking on Files or Links

Home‎ > ‎

Programme

 
10:00
 
 
Registration and refreshments
 
10:15
 
Welcome                                                                                   
 
Professor Ken Jones
Swansea Metropolitan University (SMU)
 
 
 
10:20 - 11:00
 
Introducing the ‘Teaching International Students’ project and website
How could this initiative help you? Perhaps you have something to offer too?
 
 
Fiona Hyland

University of Bristol

 
11:00 -11.45
 
The experience of Swansea Business School in the teaching of Chinese students (2006-10)
 
 
Paul Osborne SMU
 
 
 
 
 
11.50 -

12.30

 

 (parallel presentation)

 

 Plagiarism and International Students

 (Experiences at Level 6)

 

also

 

 'Increasing Internationalisation-Increasing   Diversity: Studying the Effects Upon Lecturers,  Home and International Students'

 

 

 

Helen Stacey, Glamorgan University

 

 

Diana De Glamorgan University

 

12.30 -12.45

 

 
 Discussion in relation to issues of plagiarism by undergraduate, international students             
 
Led by
Paul Osborne
SMU
 
 
12:45
 
 
Lunch
 
 
13:30 -

14.30

 

 

Strategies for assessment and feedback

In this session Jude will present a range of generic and discipline-specific strategies that have been shown to be helpful when assessing international students.

 

 
Jude Carroll,

Oxford Brookes University

 
14.40 -

15.30

 

 
Managing Cultural Differences

 

 

 
Kevin Child

Swansea University

 
15:30
 
 
Refreshment break
 
15.45 -16.30

 

The induction process and the management of international students                                                                                

                                                                                          

 Dr Paul Jones Glamorgan University                                          

 
16.30
 
Plenary (subject to time)
A question & answer session with presenters with the chance to feedback on where you feel the 'gaps' are in the provision of resources & support for practitioners teaching international students
 
 
17.00
 
Close