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Dear Colleague,

PGR International Collaborations:  Opportunities & Challenges
18^th November 2011

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/events/eventsarea/IntCollab11

Hosted by the UK Council for Graduate Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian University and Scottish Researcher Careers Coordination Forum

There are many institutional drivers towards international partnerships which yield positive benefits to UK HEI’s including a diversified income stream, joint prestigious research or teaching contracts and facilitating capacity building. Most HEI’s have an internationalisation policy and a strategy of how to take these partnerships forward. In reality, many partnerships do not yield results and may lie inactive for many years before the institution terminates the partnership. Others flourish and prosper and can be financially rewarding and result in publications, joint research income and even off-shore campus development. How do you distinguish between the two?

International research collaborations nearly always raise the possibility of joint postgraduate education and these challenge the institution to develop a position on postgrad mobility, supervisory delivery and quality assurance. There are pitfalls and “man-traps” lying in wait to the unwary. There is a temptation to compromise on for example, admission criteria for international PGR students when faced with a potential to tap into a big fully-funded supply of students.

This workshop will explore a variety of examples of international PGR collaborations and highlight the opportunities that these offer to the institution and discuss some of the challenges that come with an influx of such students.

For further information, including bookings please visit: http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/events/eventsarea/IntCollab11

Future UKCGE events include:

1^st November 2011	Postgraduate Research Symposium The British Library, London
18^thNovember 2011	PGR International Collaborations: Opportunities & Challenges University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
30^th November – 1^st December 2011	Managing Postgraduate Appeals and Complaints Residential Workshop 2011 Monkbar Hotel, York
18^th January 2012	Postgraduate Completion Rates London
10^th February 2012	Winter Conference 2012 Grand Connaught Rooms, London

For details of these and other UKCGE events please visit: http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/events

Best wishes

Angus

Angus Burns

Events Officer

UK Council for Graduate Education

Lichfield Centre

The Friary

Lichfield

WS13 6QG

Tel: 01543 308603

Fax: 01543 308604

Mobile: 07858 522130

http://www.ukcge.ac.uk