From franchise to equalise? Equitable learning in local & global contexts

Date: 9 Apr 2014
Location/venue: Leeds Metropolitan University, England

Increasingly UK institutions are focussing internationalisation efforts around franchise collaborations with international partners for the delivery of UK awards. There is a requirement, ethical and within QAA chapters, for ensuring equitable learning experiences for students in the UK and overseas. This places a requirement on the UK institution to understand how key issues in learning and teaching are conceptualised by course teams in both contexts as the basis for taking an evidence-informed approach to building appropriate staff development programmes. More...