Middlesex transcends geographic and academic borders, working with institutions around the world to provide excellent undergraduate and postgraduate education.
OUR GLOBAL REACH
We work with 66 partners in 26 countries to provide a high-quality education. More than 15,000 students were taught by Middlesex franchise, joint or validated academic partners in the last year. The University has continued to work with and support our partners during the pandemic and ensured they have plans in place to successfully deliver our degrees awards.
Middlesex works hard to develop a distinctive global reputation and positioning to become a university of choice with global partners. This year we continued to support and collaborate effectively with our academic partners. We held our link tutor workshop for academics new to the role online for the first time. This involves ensuring the University is working well with and supporting our academic partners. As this resulted in more engagement from our overseas partners, we will continue with the new format.
In summer, we normally host a Partners Institution Forum on campus in London. All partners are invited to attend sessions that provide information or cover topics of interest, meet each other and share experiences. This year, we hosted forum sessions online with the result that more overseas staff took part. The forum included sessions by the Academic Quality Service on the importance of good governance, student protection plans covering an assessment of the range of risks to the continuation of study for students and the measures put in place to mitigate those possible risks, as well as on the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) guidance which ensures we all comply with consumer law when dealing with students. Other sessions included teaching in the time of COVID-19, delivered by Middlesex’s Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE), and the experience of moving to online learning, delivered by QA Higher Education. We have planned to deliver further online sessions in the autumn. These partners are also invited to contribute to and attend the CAPE conference each year.
A Moodle/My Learning online platform that brings together information and guidance for academic partner staff has been developed as a central resource and first port of call for assistance and information. Slides and videos from the link tutor workshop and Partner Institution Forum sessions were posted there, especially for staff unable to attend.
Examples of developments this year
Many validated partners in our Department of Psychology have increased their income as a result of attracting more students in the last year despite COVID-19, including PCI College, Waverley Abbey College and the Metanoia Institute. Most of them offer counselling and psychotherapy courses.
Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) Guildford, a validated partner, saw a rise in Middlesex student numbers. Its BA Games Development and Futures Programme started in September 2020, and ACM students on the BA Music Industry Practice course delivered with another university provider transferred to Middlesex at the same time. We are supporting ACM to achieve taught degree-awarding powers themselves and are considering other ways our institutions can work together in future.
In May 2021, we revalidated all undergraduate and postgraduate provision with KMU Akademie in Austria. One of our largest academic partners in terms of income and student numbers, KMU Akademie has seen significant growth in their student numbers this year. There has been a rise in professionals and mature students signing up for the Doctor of Business Administration course, validated by Middlesex.
Our collaboration with the States of Guernsey is growing, having started out as a small collaboration. The States of Guernsey are consolidating all their education and training under one roof and Middlesex is regarded as the main UK partner for higher education on the island.
In 2021 we have begun work on reviewing and enhancing our approach to the identification, approval, review and support of academic partners, developing an Academic Partnership Framework that further integrates quality assurance with market understanding and a focus on student outcomes.
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