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PMI Student Experience Achievements 2006-2011

April 2011

This report provides a overview of the key projects focusing on the international student experience and funded by the Prime Minister’s Initiative's second phase (PMI2) over the last five years. The projects are grouped under the themes of financial advice, transition (preparing students to adjust from on learning style to another), teaching & learning, student services, students' unions, employability, professional development and Good Practice guides.

Report

Reports of Pilot Projects and Overseas Study Visits

September 2010

11 pilot projects and four overseas study visits were funded in 2009-10. This publication showcases the outcomes of a selection of reports from both schemes, which focus on encouraging innovation and publicising examples of international student support, as well as researching elements of good practice in key competitor countries.
Pilot projects and overseas study visits reports 2009-10
Pilot projects and overseas study visits reports 2008-09

Review of the Pilot Project scheme

March 2010

This review investigates how the pilot projects funded by the PMI from 2006-2009 developed when the funding period ended. It looks at lessons learnt and considers options for the final year of the scheme in 2010/11.
Review of the Pilot Project scheme

Survey of international students in FE

January 2010

i-graduate, the Association of Colleges (AoC) and UKCISA are delighted to invite you to participate in “Tracking the International Student Experience at Further Education (FE) colleges in the UK”. The research has been commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), to examine the expectations and experiences of non-EU students who undertake an FE course in the UK. The study will highlight areas of good practice and to inform areas for development, with the overall aim of improving the experience for this group of learners.
Participant information for international students in FE survey

Discussing difference, discovering similarities

July 2009

This toolkit is designed to aid academic staff and those working with students in a support role to improve interaction and cross-cultural learning between students from different cultural backgrounds.
Toolkit information

Internationalising students’ unions

July 2009

One PMI-funded project this year has been undertaken by the National Union of Students (NUS) and has focused on internationalising students’ unions in order to be as inclusive as possible for international students and to encourage greater international student representation. The NUS have piloted an audit with three unions this year and have produced a report and audit that other students’ unions can use. Phase 2 of this project is recruiting a further 20 unions to the project in 2009-10.
NUS

Linking outward and inward mobility: how raising the international horizons of UK students enhances the international student experience

June 2009

This report, by staff at the Centre for Education and Inclusion Research at Sheffield Hallam University, explores how and to what extent promoting UK student outward mobility is linked with improving the international student experience on UK campuses. The project report takes, in part, a case study approach and has examined four universities with extensive experience in promoting outward student mobility.

Mobility Report

Transnational Education and the Student Experience: a PMI Student Experience project report
By Christine Humfrey

June 2009

The inevitable and progressive growth of TNE and the acknowledgement of the central importance of the international student experience have made a focus on the quality and form of the TNE student experience a necessary and significant topic for discussion. This report outlines the major factors involved, highlights six case studies of UK institutional activities overseas, and includes an appendix with focus on the UK-Malaysia TNE experiences.
Report by Christine Humfrey

Teaching and learning for international students (TALIS) – position paper for consultation

December 2008

TALIS Report

Benchmarking the provision of services for international students in further education institutions

July 2008

This analysis of the range and extent of services specifically designed for international students in the UK’s FE colleges is a successor to last year’s similar report on HE provision. It enables the FE sector as a whole to consider the level of services currently provided, and allows individual institutions to compare their performance against others, to see whether and where improvements might be made.
Benchmarking Report
Benchmarking Self-assessment tool

Review of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) needs of staff working with international students

April 2008

Towards a new UK quality standard for international student services

March 2008

Benchmarking the Provision of Services for International Students in Higher Education Institutions

May 2007

With PMI support, we undertook the first UK-wide survey of provision for international students in HEIs. The full report allows you to benchmark your institution against the national average on all aspects of international student support.

Understanding the UK student response to internationalisation

University of the West of England and Bournemouth University

Traditionally international student views have been sought in attempts to understand patterns of interaction and integration. Although globally some studies of domestic students do exist, there is little research into the views and attitudes of UK students.

  • Article from World Views magazine reporting on the first stage of this project

International students and Local Communities (HOST UK)

This study develops ways of measuring the success of project initiatives aimed at helping international students to meet and integrate with their local communities in the UK.

  • Read the review of this project from UKCISA's World Views magazine

The cost of living for London calculator

Available from International Students' House/LCOS.

PMI Student Experience Achievements
2006-2011
Reports of Pilot Projects and Overseas Study Visits
September 2010
Review of the Pilot Project scheme
March 2010