Internationalising Higher Education

This presentation focuses on the idea that members of a skilled workforce able to operate in the global knowledge economy should have both international and intercultural competence. At the University of Hertfordshire a decision has been taken to internationalise the curriculum with a view to producing graduates who have both competencies. The poster will outline how, through a development programme, academic staff are being encouraged to modify both curriculum content and pedagogical practice. The aim is to broaden curriculum content by encouraging students to look outside traditional Eurocentric and Western frameworks, and by including teaching and learning materials from non-traditional and non-Western sources. Curriculum content is changing via 'add-on' and 'infusion' approaches and a transformation approach is a future goal, and teaching room practices are being proposed with a view to shifting students' attitudes towards 'the other'.