Internationalising Higher Education

University of Salford (UoS) is engaged in a number of PMI2 Connect partnerships with various Chinese Higher Education Institutions. Part of UoS' internationalisation strategy includes partnership building in China. UoS began engaging with three universities in the first year, extending to seven universities in the second. The partnerships are now in their second year. In June 2009, UoS held an internal China symposium to raise awareness of current and intended activity across UoS in relation to China, explore the potential for collaboration to help achieve the aims of each School and Faculty, consider how enhanced cross-University working can contribute to the University's internationalisation strategy in relation to China, and consider how best to maximise University-wide participation in PMI2. A four day workshop took place in October in Beijing and Hangzhou, China, involving representatives from the British Council, UoS, the seven project partners and other partners of UoS. The Workshop involved shared views on the context of themes related to PMI2, specifically focusing on joint module development. Knowledge sharing and discussion now takes place online in the PMI2Partnership wikispaces page. An individual and joint paper from UoS' internal and external partners will contribute to an international conference and special issue of the Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship in 2010. This poster will outline UoS' PMI2 partnerships and current and upcoming activity.