International is at Ion Strategy

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Internationalisation atMacquarie University

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1. Preamble

Macquarie is expanding its ocus on the internationalisation

o learning, teaching, research, and community engagement.

The aim is or Macquarie to take a place as a peer amongst

the top 200 research universities in the world and to prepare

Macquarie’s students or a lie o participation, open enquiry

and successul employment as global citizens.

1. Incorporate inter-cultural and global perspectives

into research, learning and teaching activities and

community service engagement;

2. Enhance and ensure the quality o educational

activities and strategic partnerships;

3. Diversiy recruitment, curricula and student

experience.

2. Internationalisation@Macquarie Statement

Macquarie University pursues discovery, learning and service

in a world without borders.

3. Internationalisation@Macquarie

Internationalisation@Macquarie operates at our levels:

• Students

• Curriculum

• Sta

• Research

This plan ensures that these our dimensions are incorporated

across the University. This plan aligns with the University’s

Strategic Direction document, Learning & Teaching Plan and

Research Plan.

Provide all students with the opportunity or high quality international experiences 1

Internationalisation at

Macquarie University

1 Macquarie@50, action 16, p. 11

Macquarie University

pursues discovery,learning and service in

a world without borders

CURRICULUM STUDENTS

STAFFRESEARCH

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4. Objectives and Strategies

4.1 Incorporate inter-cultural and global perspectives into research, learning and teaching activities and

community service and engagement

Objective Strategy Indicator

Students:

Support the internationalisation o learning and teaching or all students.

Incorporate international and inter-

cultural perspectives into the studentlearning experience.

Increased proportion o students

receiving international experiences inlearning, teaching and research through

programs such as the GLP and Global

Futures programs.

Curriculum:

Develop and support culturally inclusive

and internationally ocussed learning and

teaching practice & programs.

Incorporate global perspectives into

learning objectives, strategies and

curriculum content.

Develop baseline criteria or minimum

standards or the internationalisation o

curriculum by LTC.

Conduct an audit o all Unit Outlines by

end 2009.

All units will normally have a global

perspective by 2012.

Minimum standards developed with

results reported at a Faculty level.

Audit outcomes implemented at the

department level.

Staf:

Develop international awareness and

capabilities within University sta.

Dene teaching requirements or

inter-cultural competencies and

provide training and development

opportunitiesforallsta

Guidelines to be developed by LTC or

teaching or diversity developed by end

2009. Perormance Review and

Perormance process to incorporate

inter-cultural training and development

programs.

Recogniseandrewardstawhohave

contributed to internationalisation@MQ

One University-wide scheme and one

scheme per aculty established by the

end o 2010.

Research:Support the internationalisation o

research.

Promote globally relevant andrecognised research through

collaboration with partner institutions

and industry.

Increasedstaexchanges,OSPvisitsand visitors to MQ.

Increased number o students enrolled

in cotutelle programs over previous

years.

Increased number o International

research students

Award seed unding to support new

research initiatives to enhance the

internationalisation priorities at Faculty

levels and through central unding.

Number o new research initiatives

unded with allocation rom seed

unding.

Encourageacademicstaexchanges

and visits, and joint research projects

and publications with international

colleagues.

Increased International collaborative

research projects over previous years.

Increasednumberofacademicstaand

generalsupportstausingsearchtool

such as ResearchResearch.com

2 There is an emerging view that to benet both domestic and international students, higher education institutions need to

ocus on internationalizing the delivery and content o courses.

Source: 2008 Bradley Report pg.52_ Review o Higher Education.

3 Higher education now involves intensive global networking among institutions, academics and students, as well as with

business and industry. Source: 2008 Bradley Report pg.8_ Review o Higher Education.2



4.2 Enhance and ensure the quality o educational activities and strategic partnerships


Students:

Establish and maintain high standards o entry, teaching and student and graduate

support.

Ensure consistent language admission

requirements are appropriate to thediscipline.

Ensure appropriate GPA entry standard

or articulating students with pathway

providers.

Improvedentrycut-osforstudents

applying or admission over previousyears.

Provide additional student services

support or local and international ESL

students.

Monitor progression in academic

programs.

Improved support schemes.

Increased student retention,

achievement, progression and

completion rates over previous years.

Curriculum:Create an Internationalisation Fund. Undertake a needs analysis to identiyunds required or Internationalisation

Fund.

Needs analysis completed

Increased unds are allocated to support

an international student experience.

Develop links with three Universities in

region to promote the Global Futures

Program.

Funds acquitted to achieve quality

learningoutcomesasmeasuredbysta

and student eedback.

Staandstudentshaveengagedin

initiatives at participating Universities.

Sta:

Diversiy community engagement

activities and academic partnerships

Develop local and international

benchmarking partnerships

At least one international

benchmarking partnership per aculty is

established by the end o 2009

Research:Enhance the quality o Macquarie’s

International research partnerships and

activities

Institute a variety o university-levelagreements and partnerships with a

select group o world-class international

universities

Achieve teen new cotutelleagreements p.a.

Increase overseas competitive grant

unding applications by two - three p.a.

over previous years.

Measure inward/outward activities or

each cotutelle arrangement

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4.3 Diversiy recruitment, curricula and student experience


Students:

Enhance the learning experiences o students through greater cross cultural

engagement.

Achieve and maintain a diverse

international student prole acrossdisciplines.

A more diverse student prole across

disciplines and aculties.

Recognise and utilise the inherent

diversity o the student body and use their

knowledge and experiences as a cultural

resource.

Increase opportunities or students

to experience/ study global cross

cultural issues rom multi disciplinary

perspectives

Increase student recognition o

the value o greater cross-cultural

engagement and global citizenship.

Use Student Feedback mechanisms to

demonstrate cross-cultural recognition

as a graduate competency.

Curriculum:

Achieve a curriculum that refects global perspectives.

Provide integrated access to academic

literacy programs within the curriculum

Develop new programs that refect

people, planet, and participation incross-disciplinary areas.

Implement academic literacy and

language prociency initiatives or local

and international students.

Programs and units in each aculty are

developed that refect this aspiration.

Increased participation in language

prociency initiatives across MQ.

Improved perormance, retention

and completion rates in language

prociency initiatives across MQ.

Sta:

Internationalise the competency and

experience o all sta

Use the Perormance Development

and Review process to encourage

andrecordstacross-disciplinaryand

internationalisation competence.

Atleastonestamemberfromeach

aculty and service area participates in

programs such as the Global Futures

program p.a.

Explore development opportunitiesforallstatocontributetoan

improvement o inter-cultural

understanding.

Examples o programs which have beenimplemented to achieve this goal.

Research:

Engage students and sta in service

learning opportunities in Australia and

overseas which embrace cross-disciplinary

research projects.

Studentsandstaparticipatein

research related work experience that

anticipates and addresses global issues

Number o schemes that are engaging

studentsandstatodothistypeof

research.Measureofstudentsandsta

engaged in these schemes.

4 Many commentators have suggested a more diverse spread o international students would lead to a better experience or

domestic and international students and reap broader public good benets. Source: 2008 Bradley Report pg.51_ Review o

Higher Education.4



5. Glossary

Academic Literacy

The capacity to undertake study and research, and to

communicate ndings and knowledge, in a mannerappropriate to the particular disciplinary conventions and

scholarly standards expected at university level.

Source: University o Western Australia, 2004.

Cotutelle

A cotutelle agreement is an agreement between institutions

indierentcountriesforthejointenrolment,supervision

and examination o research students, so that each student

engages in a research experience in both institutions.

Cross Cultural

Culture consists o a wide range o evolving patterns o

behaviour and belies, such as morals, law, ood choices,

clothing, rituals and religious practice, learned since birth and

which tend to characterise a group o people at a given point

in time. Within the education system, cultural awareness is an

understandingofthevaluesanddierencesofone’sownand

other cultures and adapting learning, teaching and research

activities to encompass a more holistic ramework.

Cross-disciplinary

Involving two or more academic disciplines in the pursuit o

research, learning and teaching activities.

ESL

English as a Second Language.

Global

The dictionary meaning or Global states: ‘pertaining to the

whole world; a worldwide initiative’. For Macquarie University

this is how this higher education institution adapts its

learning, teaching, and research with a world wide approach.

Global Futures

An Agreement with Australian Volunteers International

(AVI)toprovideMacquarieUniversitystaandstudentsan

opportunity to participate in local, regional and international

community-based projects o mutual benet.

GLP

Global Leadership Program

GPA

Grade Point Average. The Grade Point Average (GPA) o a

student is a calculation which refects the overall grade o a

student.

Inter-cultural

Inter-cultural competence is the ability to successullycommunicate with people o other cultures.

Internationalisation

The process o integrating an international and inter-cultural

dimension into the teaching, research and services o

Macquarie University.

LTC

Learning and Teaching Centre

OSP

Outside Studies Program: opportunity or selectedacademicstatospendanextendedperiodworkingon

their Macquarie research programs at (usually) overseas

institutions.

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