University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

November 2011 New Partnership with Soran University, Kurdistan-Iraq

November 2011 Partnership with the Wisconsin International University (USA) Ukraine

September 2011 Visit by Soran University to University College Plymouth St Mark and St John

September 2011 University College out-ranks Oxford in Sunday Times University Guide

September 2011 Launch of MA in TESOL

August 2011 University College donates equipment to St John’s University in Tanzania

August 2011 Officials from the Indonesian Ministry Of National Education visit the University College

New information for International Students

CILTE in Turkish Textbook Project

Keyswott Project - Ethiopia

News from Sabah in Malaysia

We are in the process of re-structuring our International website. So please keep checking it, specially our 'courses' pages.

1) Staff News & Staff Activities, Courses & International Work 

2) Research, Scholarly Activity and Conference Presentations

3) Consultancy Activities - Current and Recent

4) Project and Programme Developments

The History of International Students at the University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

Research by the Centre for International Language Teacher Education (CILTE) and Library Staff discovered that the first International Students at the College were three Young Syrian men and that was as far back as 1842, over 165 years ago. They came to what was then, St Mark, to learn English in order that they could subsequently study medicine. One might guess that they were perhaps the first international students in England on a 'pre-sessional' English Course.

1. Classroom Management in Language Education (Palgrave:2005)
2. Managing Classroom Life in Understanding the Language Classroom (Eds. Gieve & Miller 2006)
3. Contribution to TrainEd: Training Teacher Educators (ECML, Graz 2007)

Our recent International Anthology - 'Marjon around the World'

CILTE has published a short anthology of case studies of its work around the world in recent years. Contributors include Mike Scholey writing about Russia, Michael Hall about Chile, Tony Wright about Mexico and Pat McLaughlin about Bangladesh. There are also articles from Steve Ansell and Rod Bolitho, the editors of the anthology, focusing on a number of international contexts. Some of the case studies have been written in collaboration with project partners.

In this short anthology of case studies we have collected together six accounts of our work in International Education in recent years.   They are chosen to illustrate the principles we have always tried to hold to in our international partnerships, and to give an impression of the range of our project involvement both geographically and in terms of content areas.  We have worked regularly and successfully in four continents: Asia, Africa, Europe and Central/South America.  Our partnerships have been with institutions, with Ministries, with Non-Governmental Organisations and with a number of governmental aid bodies.  In terms of content, we have developed a reputation for our work in Resource Centre Management, Teacher and Trainer Development, Textbook and Materials Projects, Curriculum Design and for the delivery of a range of Postgraduate qualifications in-country.  All of these areas are represented in this collection. 

For additional information please contact the International office.