Internationalising Higher Education

Within universities today, there is an increasing emphasis upon internationalisation, with initiatives addressing curriculum, pedagogy and student experience. A key aim is to create 'globally competent' graduates at all levels. In parallel with these international developments, UK universities' PhD programmes now pay much more attention to the development of the transferable skills of individual researchers. Given the increasingly global nature of research, especially in science and technology, it seems that more should be done to develop the global competences required by researchers. This poster will consider this issue in the context of a training programme for doctoral students in global skills at Imperial College London. In particular, it will present first results from a project funded by the Prime Minister's Initiative for International Education (PMI2) between Imperial College London and Tsinghua University in Beijing on employability and entrepreneurship of doctoral students in the UK and China. The partners are developing a joint summer school, which aims to increase the 'global skills' of doctoral students to enhance their employability and understanding of entrepreneurship in a global context. While discussing this activity, the presenters will welcome other ideas and possible solutions from the audience at Going Global 4.