How do students feel about studying in a culturally diverse Higher Education environment?
In the early 1990s when I studied for my undergraduate degree in psychology, you could count the number of international students on one hand. The picture now is rather different with large numbers of international students studying in the UK. I regret I was unable to experience learning in a multi-cultural environment. I never considered going abroad to study – it wasn’t the ‘done thing’ for the ‘UK student’ then, or even perhaps now. The concept of Internationalisation at Home (IaH) is the idea that most students’ exposure to cultural diversity will take place whilst studying at ‘home’ in their native country. So, now that we have an international Higher Education (HE) landscape, what do students make of it? In spring 2008, ESCalate, in conjunction with the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and Dr Sheila Trahar (Bristol University) as academic consultant, ran 15 focus groups with students and staff from a range of HE institutions and disciplines around
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