An Important Agent of Change for the Internationalization of your University

Course description

How the International Office can be an Important Agent of Change When Internationalizing a National University.

The aim of the course is to give insight into how the International Office can be an important agent of change when internationalizing a national university. To to share different experiences regarding the running of IO and learn from instructors and other participants.

Students will fill out a questionnaire before the start of the course and do some group work that will be shared with the rest of the group.  Reading material will be distributed on site but participants should make sure that their institution holds a copy of Managing an International Office published by EAIE (European Association of International Education).

Commencing by looking at the positioning and strategy of the IO within your business unit, followed with different units of IO structure and which structure might be the appropriate for your IO.

Another important aspect is the electronization of IO, is the office using new methods to control it‘s data or are papers floating all over? Internationalization is hard to reach is working methods are not adapted.

Staffing of IO is another important factor for a successful and international IO at your university as orientation of incoming and outgoing students and communication needs to be synchronised. Commencing by adding up financial focus and your homepage.

Teaching Methods

• Main teaching methods material will be paper copies of lecture slides and other supporting hand out material
• Guest lecturers
• Case studies
• Exercises and group discussions

Intended course's outcome

The course provides participants with knowledge and know-how of:

• Positioning and strategy
• Functions and staffing of the IO
• Budgeting and financial management of the IO
• Project management
• Your partners - a strategy or happening
• The IO homepage

After the course participants should have means to know how to run well the IO at their home universities.

Dates and Location

Duration:       20 hours

Dates:            March 26^tn to March 30^tn 2012                                    Register here.

Place:             Reykjavík University | Menntavegi 1 | 101 Reykjavik | Iceland

Leisure:          Excursions will be organised as an option for participants

Price:              500 EUR per person for academic programme, leisure and accommodation is not included. 

 Academic Responsibility

 Academic responsibility: Margrét Jónsdóttir PhD, Director of International Affairs at Reykjavík University.

For Further information contact:

   Charlotta Karlsdóttir

   Specialist

   e-mail: charlotta@ru.is