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Governance: L&T• Faculty L&T committee (QE)

– Chair L&T committee of each Department– Director, Students– Representative of LTC– BESS coordinator– Associate Dean, L&T

• Interim Faculty Standards and Quality committee (QA)– L&T representative of each Department– One coordinator of UG studies from a Department– Representative from the library– Representative of LTC– Associate Dean L&T

• Student Experience Committee – Representatives from Student Societies– Coordinator of BESS– HODs and Director, Elected Student members– Faculty Manager

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Communication: L&T

• Bimonthly newsletters to all staff• L&T plan for Faculty on web (2008-2012)• Reporting of Faculty plan against University

plan on Provost web site• Use of intranet for staff to view draft documents

related to the curriculum review

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L&T support for all students and staff

• Director, Learning and Teaching– Offer has been made– Focus on international outcomes

• Learning and Leaching Project Officer (Paul Taylor)– LEAD initiative– Grants and awards– L&T resource development– Teaching resource development

• Manager, Student Administration (Alan Henry)– Moderation processes– Special consideration– Policy implementation and monitoring

• First year – Appointment of a developer to work on the Foundation program– Offer has been made

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Improving International Student Support (p.81) Administration

• Business and Economics Student Services (BESS) – One stop shop for enquiries

• assignment drop off and collection• special consideration• direction to appropriate academic advice

• Student survival guide– Hard copy and web

• Basic enrolment information• Services• Social events

• Strategy– Use technology smarter to connect with students

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Improving International Student Support (p.81) Academic

• Peer assisted learning (PAL)– Administered by BESS– Training for students involved – highly sought after– International students are advisers and attendees

• Academic literacy– Generic skills incorporated in many units of study

Curriculum mapping in the curriculum renewal– Curriculum renewal will include academic literacy unit tailored for

Business• Issue

– Failure and exclusion rates among International students remain problematic

• Strategy– Early warning assessment task– Individual monitoring of students who have failed – good success

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Improving International Student Support (p.81) Orientation to Australia

• Conversation groups– Practicing spoken English

• Buddy and mentor program– Buddy system from MI– Macquarie Mentoring program

• Student societies– Work related skills– Australian business– Social events

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International student commencements (p.91)

• MI responsible for recruitment and enrolment• Issues

– Quality/quantity trade-off?– Diversification of students– Better data on enrolment numbers needed for

planning

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Improving quality assurance with other partner institutions (p.101)

• Quality control arrangements– Approval of staff– Curriculum approval

• Use our unit outlines

– Moderation of assessment – common template– Monitoring of results by Dean– Quality checks of teaching done by partner institutions and

communicated to the Faculty– Professional development

• Booklets produced and distributed• Seminars at MQC for exam writing

• Issues– Differences in moderation procedures (legacy issue)

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Internationalisation of the curriculum (p.105)

• Embedded in PDR– Following an audit of unit outlines staff are encouraged to explicitly

incorporate internationalisation in their units– Incorporation of international research by staff into their teaching

• Embedded in new curriculum– Induction unit (BBA 102 Principles of Management) will specifically

target cross-cultural sensitivity– Implementation of ALTC business project on cross-cultural sensitivity

• Current programs– International Business at UG and PG– Large number of units with international focus eg International

Marketing– International study tours

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Ensuring diversification and providing stronger support for international students (p.111)• Curriculum renewal has provided opportunity for strong foundation

– BBA 102 – includes induction. 6 common units in Foundation year– Academic literacy unit for Business– Generic skills embedded in the curriculum

• BESS initiatives– Conversation groups, PAL, student societies

• There is a demand to expand PAL – hindered by lack of rooms– One stop administrative shop– Social orientation – BBQs etc

• Failure rates for international students– Higher in Accounting and Economics– Strategies

• Individual support for students who have failed – good success rate• Assessment policy has early assessment to identify students at risk• Higher language requirement for entry to SIBT• Transition out; English proficiency testing of international students• Failure and exclusion rates likely to remain higher than desirable in the short term.

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Issues and strategies• Numbers and quality of international students

– How many international students can we work with?• Increase staff numbers – grow our own

– Better data on enrolment numbers needed for planning• Working with MI and SIBT

– Dealing with culturally diverse groups• Professional development• Teaching resources

• External providers– ICMS – not fully integrated following the recent renewal of

the contract• Procedure for moderation in place

– Student quality inputs and outcomes• GPA requirement introduced

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Issues and strategies• L&T Quality

– More will be done to meet student satisfaction targets• Director L&T appointment

• Support for students– There is a demand to expand PAL from staff and students –

hindered by lack of suitable rooms• Space capacity constraints (esp. junior teaching staff and

rooms)• Student outcomes still show room for improvement

• Strategies in L&T plan• Better data on cohorts• Research into student needs • Professional development and resources eg exams guide

• More explicit internationalisation of the curriculum• Template for handbook entries• Template for unit guides