
Monika FosterUniversity of the West of Scotland | UWS
Monika Foster
Professor of Learning and Teaching
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Introduction
Professor Monika Foster is Dean of the School of Business and Enterprise at the University of the West of Scotland. Previously, Monika was the Head of the Business Schoolat Queen Margaret University. Monika does research in internationalisation of the curriculum, including Business Education, and transitions for students to Higher Education. Their current project is 'Exploring Internationalisation of the Curriculum. Special Issue Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice.'
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August 2014 - August 2017
January 2002 - July 2015
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Publications (26)
International students contribute circa 25.8 billion in gross output for the UK economy (Universities UK, 2017). The new UK government Strategy in March (2019) is to cement Britain's leading role in the global market by increasing the number of international students studying in the UK by more than 30%-helping boost the income generated by educatio...
International students contribute circa 25.8 billion in gross output for the UK economy (Universities UK, 2017). The new UK government Strategy in March (2019) is to cement Britain's leading role in the global market by increasing the number of international students studying in the UK by more than 30%-helping boost the income generated by educatio...
Business and Management Schools have long been at the forefront of internationalisation, realising that international perspectives are crucial in any business environment. Business Schools compete globally for the best staff and students, seeing them more as assets than customers. As a result, internationalisation is infused throughout the universi...
Recent developments in globalisation of higher education encourage increased student mobility. This talk examines the extent to which international student mobility exerts an impact on cross cultural learning adaptation of the students in new learning environments. Informed by an innovative, cross-faculty study involving international academics fro...
Increased interest in internationalisation of the curriculum (IoC) has led to the development of a range of resources designed to support staff in translating theory into practice. Studies on how such resources are actually used and impact on academic practice are scarce. This paper aims to fill the gap by reporting on a cross-institutional study o...
“The learning landscape is a restless space.” (Locker, 2009: 139)
In the literature on teaching and learning in higher education, references to novelty and innovation are regularly tied with the implicit recognition that evolving contexts and modalities of learning preclude static views of pedagogy. This edited collection of chapters subscribes to...
In the research literature regarding international students’ learning experiences, a frequently studied
theme is the ‘Chinese culture of learning’ as contrasted by the ‘Western/United Kingdom (UK) culture
of learning’. This essentialist approach tends to reduce culture of learning to a static, nationally-bound
object that exists a priori. A cross-f...
Have you recently been on an internationalisation or mobility committee/working group tasked with encouraging outgoing student mobility and, having used every available incentive, concluded that ‘they just don’t want to go’?
This blog post builds on the results of the study which explored the impact of student mobility on cross-cultural adaptatio...
Have you recently been on an internationalisation or mobility committee/working group tasked with encouraging outgoing student mobility and, having used every available incentive, concluded that ‘they just don’t want to go’?
This blog post builds on the results of the study which explored the impact of student mobility on cross-cultural adaptatio...
Editorial for the special Issue on Exploring Internationalisation of the Curriculum to Enhance the Student Experience, November 2015.
Cross-border education provides evidence about international student destination choice including the push and pull model of international student choice. The research upon which this article is based, into Brazilian students’ decisions to study at universities in the United Kingdom, reveals some particular barriers such as cost, negative past rela...
In the current educational landscape, with increasingly diverse student groups on programmes, traditional induction many not always be best suited to the needs of the students and programmes of study. Research shows that an extended induction which allows for a steady development of skills and awareness is more suitable for international and direct...