Originally posted on UCA Creative Education Network:
Webinar recording: The impact of internationalisation on the UCA curriculum Dr. Tomasz John (EAP Coordinator and researcher in the internationalisation of HE) John Sutter (Learning Enhancement Manager) Dr. Tony Reeves (Subject Leader, Creative Education) UCA’s increased focus on internationalisation presents implications for the design and delivery of our…
Call for Contributors ~ Rethinking Education Across Borders: Emerging Issues and Important Insights on Globally Mobile Students
Originally posted on Journal of International Students:
JIS Current Book Projects/Call for Contributors Rethinking Education Across Borders: Emerging Issues and Important Insights on Globally Mobile Students The subject of the book is critical issues and perspectives about globally mobile students as the issues and perspectives are made pertinent by major shifts in the geopolitical, economic, and technological changes globally…
My new piece on #internationalising the #curriculum #tleap #ucapsead #intled
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Guest blog post – Dr. Tomasz John
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Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship: Linking continents and bridging cultures: a reflective account of practice
I’m mega chuffed to learn I have been granted Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship @HEAcademy, working hard pays off! Due to fear of losing all the files I collated over the summer to evidence I’m worthy of the fancy title, I decided to post it here to make sure it won’t get lost! Thank you…
Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship – Case Study 2: Coordinating English for Academic Purposes on International Pathway Programmes
The Final Showcase of my first Pre-sessional EAP course at UCA Epsom, August 2011 The Beginnings Since becoming the IPP EAP Coordinator in 2012, my key responsibility has been developing our courses in order to support international students, internationalising our courses’ curricula to embrace students’ diversity and advancing students’ English language skills (A1, A4, K2,…
Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship – Case Study 1: Re-imagining the Internationalisation of Higher Education
A slide from my final presentation of my PhD research, June 2016 As H.R.M.A. van der Heijden et al. (2015) claim, it is fundamental to create a supportive environment in which teachers are encouraged to be agentic in order to positively influence or change their education, and to learn and develop themselves both individually and…
How to Engage with Internationalisation – an interactive workshop for UCA staff
I’ve been invited to contribute to the internal UCA conference ‘Inclusion – is it for everybody?’ in Epsom on 5 January 2017. Thinking how to best utilise my research in internationalisation of HE for UCA staff, I decided to prepare an interactive workshop on embedding internationalisation into curriculum. The workshop will enable UCA staff to…
Fostering a sense of belonging: enhancing the international student experience
My colleague John Whitehead and I have been invited to run a workshop at this year’s UK NARIC Conference in London 21-22 November: see the programme here, our workshop 21.2.2 The British education sector has recently become increasingly dependent upon the income generated by overseas fee-paying students. Yet the experiences of these students are sometimes upsetting,…
BALEAP Bristol 2017: Linking continents and bridging cultures – Embedding Intercultural Competencies into the UCA Pre-sessional EAP Programme
Yay! I’ve been shortlisted to present a paper at the BALEAP (British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes) 2017 Conference! ADDRESSING THE STATE OF THE UNION: WORKING TOGETHER = LEARNING TOGETHER 7-9 APRIL, 2017 – UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Summary of the paper: Within the context of EAP and creative arts, it has been…
My final #PhD presentation for the University of Reading Institute of Education
I’ve been asked to present the final findings of my doctoral inquiry at UoR IoE. It felt great to being finally able to uncover all the mysteries I’ve been trying to solve during a rather extended period of 5 years! At the same time, it wasn’t an easy task as I had a relatively large…
Re-make umiędzynarodowienia szkolnictwa wyższego: studium przypadku jednego z brytyjskich uniwersytetów
After my recent trip to Poland, I realised it’s not as easy as I thought to translate literally into Polish what my PhD thesis was about. I actually struggled to reflect the nature of my study as it struck me that academic Polish is completely different to English for Academic Purposes. 10 years away from…
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