The new Nottingham Pharmacy degree: a dual campus venture
December 5, 2013
Cristina de Matteis: “In September 2012 we launched our new four year pharmacy (MPharm) degree in Nottingham and Malaysia; the culmination of more than 3 years of planning, innovation, design and implementation. This degree is a radically new approach to the education of pharmacists and meets the new General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) standards [1]. Here …
Cross-campus teaching: an admin perspective
June 5, 2013
Ellen Salway: “I assume that from lots of people’s perspective my reasons for attending stem from the boring side of our HEI world. I’m on board with the exceptional and enriching experience inter campus learning can bring, but I’m afraid my main interest is solidly in ‘how can we get this to work’. I’ve got …
Cross-campus teaching: an academic perspective
May 31, 2013
Kirsty Hyndes: “How can I develop cross-campus teaching in a programme that has no teaching in Malaysia or China at the moment? This was my question before attending the session. Was my question answered? No: but what I did hear was food for thought. “What I learned was that there are some very dedicated, charismatic, …
QAA Review of Overseas Provision: University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus
May 28, 2013
Chris Bexton: “The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) recently sent a team of reviewers to the University’s Ningbo campus as part of a review of Transnational Education in China and early indications are that the review went very well, with UNNC achieving it’s ‘stated intention to provide the “Nottingham experience” in China in less than 8 …
Internationalisation and student engagement
April 11, 2013
Video >> Prof. Cousin drew on her recent work to highlight the impact of internationalisation on curriculum review and teaching practice, and to outline approaches to improving student engagement. She reviewed the concept of global citizenship and its synergy with the notion of critical being that most HE courses aim to engender in their students. …
Supervising an International Masters project – a UK perspective
April 9, 2013
Prof Vicky Story: “Both Duncan [Dr Shaw on the UK perspective] and Mohan [Prof Mohan Avvari on the Malasia perspective] highlight the difficulties in getting firms to host MBA projects. However, as they also highlight, and based on my own experience supervising a number of these company-based projects, when they are done well, they are …
Supervising an international Masters project – a Malaysia perspective
March 26, 2013
Anita Chakrabarty: “The success of an international project hinges on many things, amongst them of course is excellent support from the teams that set up the entire collaborative effort in both campuses. Apart from students, I believe that such projects are equally sought after by faculty, for two reasons. First it expands our own knowledge …
Setting up an international Masters project – a Malaysia perspective
March 13, 2013
Prof. Mohan Avvari: “As Dr Duncan Shaw rightly put it in his post on the UK perspective, many MBAs love doing projects with external organisations because it gives them access to the full commercial context of their work, they can see how it helps the firm and they have a much more compelling addition their …
Setting up an international Masters project – UK perspective
February 26, 2013
Dr Duncan Shaw: “About seven years ago they gave me the admin job of finding projects for MBA dissertations. I used to work for Motorola and I did consultancy projects for lots of firms, so when I became an academic the Business School in the UK asked me to work with firms to get company-based …
How can we develop modern language speaking skills?
May 21, 2012
Wei Marton: “The main issue we have identified is finding ways to develop the speaking skills of modern languages students outside of class time. While there are plenty of resources available to enhance reading, writing and listening skills resources are limited for the speaking element. Therefore our aim is to develop a virtual interactive task-based …
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