Normalizing Study Abroad Experiences: Strategies for Internationalization and Employability
This discussion explores how to normalize the study abroad experience by potentially making it compulsory in various subjects. We evaluate the benefits of leveraging the experiences of returning students to bolster internationalization at home and improve employability. Topics include incentives and rewards for participation, the introduction of organizational slack for support, and the strategic role of staff mobility. We also assess how to extend student mobility to staff and the needs of short-term incoming participants to enhance institutional benefits and address critical questions from international student body results.
Normalizing Study Abroad Experiences: Strategies for Internationalization and Employability
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Presentation Transcript
How do we ‘normalise’ the study abroad experience? • Can we make it compulsory and in which subjects? • How do we leverage the experience of “returners” to • Internationalise at home ? • Improve employability? • What are the incentives and rewards? • How can organisational “slack” be introduced to facilitate? • Is staff mobility a strategic plan or tactical initiatives? • Students Outgoing • Staff Incoming • Staff Outgoing • Students Incoming • How do we work with them to internationalise at home? • How do we extend student mobility to staff more extensively? • What are the needs of short-term incomers to maximise the benefits • For institution? • For incomer? • How do we work with them to internationalise at home? • If and how to address the ISB results? • How to reverse the ‘deficit model’?