%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Baker, A.
%A Nesbit, T.
%D 2006
%T Transnational Education – The Students Coming Onshore: A Case Study
%E Mann, S.
%E Bridgeman, N.
%B 19th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications
%C Wellington, New Zealand
%I NACCQ in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE
%P 11-15
%@ ISSN 1176-8053
%U www.naccq.ac.nz
%8 7th-10th July 2006
%X Since 2001 Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of
Technology (CPIT) has taught the first two tears of the
Bachelor of Information and Communication
Technologies (BICT) degree at four vocational
colleges in Beijing, China. The students study for three
years as the computing content is combined with a year
of English language study. After passing the three
years study in Beijing the students graduate with a
Diploma of Computing (Level 6) and they are eligible
to complete the final year of the BICT at CPIT.
Students’ who articulate to the BICT often require
extra English tuition, find our educational model
foreign and they often feel pressured by the
expectations of their family in China.
CPIT academic staff, who teach on the third year of the
degree, have noticed a change in class dynamics as
these ‘new to CPIT’ students require additional support
in many cases. The students have little independent
learning skills and require nurturing initially to get
them comfortable with the CPIT way of life.
In spite of the problems faced by the students and staff
the success rate of these students is reasonably close to
the success rate of other students in the final year of the
BICT degree.
%K Transnational Education, Off Shore Delivery, China, Education, CPIT.