Nobody Puts Students in the Corner - Student Experience and Engagement in TNE

In this latest Think Education podcast, Chris reflects on two recent events he attended – The IC Global Café TNE: Impactful Collaborations, Meaningful Student Experience and Achieving Sustainability and Equity, delivered by Dr Vangelis Tsiligiris and the 4^th TNE Hub Research and practice symposium – Advancing Horizons: Transnational Education Partnerships in a Pluralizing World.  TNE’s role in Empowering Graduates, Fostering Impact and Promoting Equity.

Vangelis spoke about the need to place students in the centre of partnership activity, particularly in the TNE space and Dr Katherine Lupton, Lead for Academic International Partnerships, Leeds Trinity University, presenting in the 4^th TNE Hub symposium, outlined the approaches taken at Leeds Trinity to support student engagement and used the excellent phrase of ‘name not a number’ to indicate their connection to each of their TNE students.

These two presentations got us thinking about how we view students in the TNE space and how we should perhaps view them.  We debated the metrics of university success as opposed to the more qualitative narrative of experience and acknowledged the challenges in this process.

We talked about the student experience and student identity and went back and forth on the value and purpose of TNE; how we measure success; how we view its expansion; and ultimately, how we demonstrate value.

 

 

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