Pilot Projects Scheme

Pilot Projects approved for funding in 2008/09

The Pilot Projects Scheme aims to encourage innovation and develop and publicise examples of best practice in international student support. Institutions can bid for funding for projects which match this aim.

Reports on the outcomes from previously funded projects can be found in the case studies section, grouped by theme.

Sixteen out of this year’s 27 applications have just been approved for funding in 2008/09, totalling some £80,000 and these are listed below:

• Understanding the factors which cause non-European students to under-utilise free English language classes (University of Abertay)
• Exploration of non-attendance at induction by specified groups of non-UK students (University of Birmingham)
• Cycling Safety: a road safety DVD for international students in the UK (Bournemouth University)
• Teaching and learning: the international perspective and cultural awareness (University of Brighton)
• What is the disabled international student experience? (Brunel University)
• InterVisual: an online, interactive recruitment and careers education tool for international students (Brunel University)
• One Voice (De Montfort University)
• Hospitality training for employability and lifelong learning (HOTELL) (Edinburgh’s Telford College)
• ‘Help me – I’m an international student’: reaching out to international students (University College Falmouth)
• International student volunteering (Heriot-Watt University)
• A framework for research skills training, support and e-supervision for international PhD students (University of Huddersfield)
• Exchange students as language tutors (Newman University College)
• “Culture Vulture” – a new approach to hosting aimed at integration between UK and international students (University of Nottingham)
• C-Shock: a virtual environment containing culture shock elements, games and quizzes for international students to combat culture shock (University of Portsmouth)
• Adopt an international student (Queen Margaret University)
• M-Learning: delivering international student support via mobile technologies (Sheffield Hallam University)