This was focused on a Business Management (BA) that offered both a 3 and 4 year option. Currently the intake was 60% international but it looks as though the September 2015 intake might be 70% international. The team of lecturers was also diverse coming from around 12 different countries. The key point that the team had found was that the students really did have diverse learning styles and cultural norms. They also wanted the students to gain more than just a degree. They had noted there issues around the lack of integration, engagement, appreciation of cultures, norms and values, there was an attainment gap and home students lacked mobility often not taking the four year option with a placement which might be abroad. The team decided they wanted to address these issues from the beginning and so started an online international learning project (OIL). They also made changes to other areas.

Induction week was week 0 and there was an academic skills module run as well. Students were encouraged from the beginning to be part of a mixed seminar group where they were not with friends and would find out about other cultures. They used ice breakers with them to encourage sharing of cultures so the ‘I am’ game. This required students to share:

• I am name…and a fact on who you are as a person
• I am … and focus on something about your social side
• I am… and concentrate on your cultural side
• I am … focus on nationality or ethnicity

There had been some increase in groups working together through targeting activities from induction and then using the online project to continue this.