Abroad but not abandoned: supporting student adjustment in the international placement journey

Culture, courage and compassion: exploring the experience of student nurses on placement abroad

Background: Nursing is emotional work and learning how to manage their emotions is a valuable part of nurse education. As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile nurses will care for people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. The development of cultural competence and a global mind-set is therefore a valuable asset and engagement in study abroad through overseas clinical placement can help...

The Journey to the Electronic Student Record

A virtual Electronic Student Record (ESR) is a collection of student records that reside in a variety of information systems and locations and on multiple types of databases. It contains information from many student-related encounters. When we reach our destination, these records will collectively reflect the current student status and lifetime history of a student. The ESR is virtual in the s...

JourneyMap: Visualising the time-bound student journey

A student’s view of higher education is often talked about as ‘transformative’ and as a ‘journey’ or ‘pathway’. The student experience of university is time-bound, covering a clearly specified duration. From a learner’s perspective the Higher Education (HE) journey begins at induction and ends at graduation. Through discrete and highly personal steps students move from one state, fresher, to an...

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Using an ethnographic approach to understand the adjustment journey of international students at a university in England