Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: BME and international students' perceptions about teaching

The purpose of this presentation is to share and discuss some preliminary findings and experiences about international students’ perceptions about teaching and what the role of the tutor should be. The discussion is from a practitioner’s perspective and ongoing research is based on teaching and managing courses with a large contingent of international and BME students; focus group meetings with students from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds; and interviews with academics from overseas academic partnership institutions on their best practices in teaching. The objective is to develop a better understanding of what teaching excellence means from students’ perspective and how this should inform our teaching.