Governance: L

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Governance LT

• Faculty LT committee (QE)
• Chair LT committee of each Department
• Director, Students
• Representative of LTC
• BESS coordinator
• Associate Dean, LT
• Interim Faculty Standards and Quality committee
  (QA)
• LT representative of each Department
• One coordinator of UG studies from a Department
• Representative from the library
• Representative of LTC
• Associate Dean LT
• Student Experience Committee
• Representatives from Student Societies
• Coordinator of BESS
• HODs and Director, Elected Student members
• Faculty Manager

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Communication LT

• Bimonthly newsletters to all staff
• LT 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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LT 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
• LT 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

4
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

7
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

8
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

10
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

• LT Quality
• More will be done to meet student satisfaction
  targets
• Director LT 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 LT 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