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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
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4.2 Enhance and ensure the quality o educational activities and strategic partnerships
Objective Strategy Indicator
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
Objective Strategy Indicator
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
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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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