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As the flow of international students to UK Higher Education continues to grow and becomes ever more diverse, Higher Education institutions and Business Schools seek to engage more with students’ cultural differences and prior educational experiences in order to create an inclusive and level playing field for academic achievement. For this to happen, institutions and their employees require a greater understanding of the challenges that international students face, both as academic learners and as sojourners in a, sometimes, substantially different cultural context. On the one hand, this involves an appreciation of what is entailed in the process of cross-cultural adjustment and what kind of practical support can be provided for students engaged in exploring and thriving in a new way of life that may be different to their own. Likewise, greater awareness of how to build interculturality and level out the playing field when it comes to ways of learning and approaching academic tasks that may be new and challenging for them is of paramount importance. This article explores how Higher Education institutions can help to build a more welcoming and inclusive environment and experience for a growing and increasingly diverse body of international students and enable them to succeed and excel on a level that would demonstrate genuine equity in academic opportunity and achievement.
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This page is a summary of: How Can We Be Inclusive of Diverse Cultural Perspectives in International Higher Education? Exploring Interculturality, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29952-0_5.
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