Education exchanges
These are initiatives that can be new or part of an existing program, it could be awarded or non-awarded academic programs. It can be subdivided into joint programs, joint modules, joint sessions, or joint extra-curricular activities. The intended learning outcomes of an education exchange are strongly guided by the course objectives, rather than in the intercultural exchange.
Joint programmes are born from strong collaboration between partners which strengthens their cooperation by formalizing an academic program. Joint modules are embedded into an existing programme, which may or may not be compulsory, following the main learning purpose of a programme. Sessions are the units that compose a module. Finally, Extra-curricular activities are optional exchanges that students might have alongside their current program, these programmes are designed to provide brief educational experiences.
Education portfolio
The projects that go into the Education exchanges portfolio are:
Ongoing
The Future17 Challenge Programme is a new global initiative between the University of Exeter, QS and leading international universities designed to support students to develop the skills needed to collaboratively tackle 21st Century global challenges through working with professionals to create pathways for innovative solutions to real-world issues associated with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Future17 enables students to collaborate with learners from a consortium of global partner universities in international, interdisciplinary and multicultural teams through projects defined by SDG Challenge Partners (businesses, charities, NGOs etc.).
Ongoing
As part of the program Modern Languages, the Module SML2246 Intercultural Communication, developed a series of virtual exchanges, sharing learning resources, activities and ideas with Purdue University as part of their learning programme.
2021 - 2022
It was a module developed between 2021 – 2022 in partnership with Lahore University of Management Sciences where the students from the University of Exeter had an immersive experience with Hindi classes, film screenings, seminars and collaborative activities with students and professors based in LUMS.
Ongoing
It is a Postgraduate Taught module from the Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. Part of this course is taught in conjunction with Leiden University in the Netherlands. This module explores how to use inscriptions in historical research, particularly from the Roman period.
2021
As part of an elective ‘special study unit’ at the College of Medicine and Health; Medical and Nursing students explored the Colombian healthcare system in action.
The trip is normally run in conjunction with partners from the University of South Florida (USF) and Colombia’s Universidad del Norte, so that students from all three institutions can meet up and learn collaboratively. Due to the COVID 19 emergency, this exchange was held online over an intensive four-day period in March, in which students attended presentations from medical experts in all three countries. All sessions incorporated resources in both English and Spanish (slide sets also included both languages), which gave students an opportunity to broaden their vocabulary regardless of their mother tongue.
2021
This Virtual exchange was an intensive one-week research workshop in partnership with the University of South Florida and the University of Exeter. It was designed to assist graduate students at USF and Exeter in overcoming pandemic-related obstacles to archival research.
