Division International Studies

On 24 and 26 March 2010 students from the International Studies Division took part in a series of simulated European Union Council of Ministers meetings. The simulations formed part of the second year module European Union: Institutions and involved the drafting of a common EU resolution on Iran’s nuclear programme. Students engaged in a variety of activities, such as bargaining, coalition building, drafting and amending, all of which promoted joint or consensual decision making. Students applied their knowledge of the European Union gained in the lectures and tested their interpersonal and negotiation skills. The games were a useful addition to the EU Institutions course in that they provided an alternative format to student learning.

Tu Jiequn, a Year 4 student of the Division International Studies, won the 2nd prize in a poetry competition organised by the City of Echizen in the Prefecture of Fukui in Japan. The theme was love and belonging and Tu Jiequn submitted this tanka (a tanka is a short poem following the pattern of 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic lines):

Sakura by Keith Mallett

虹と言えば

君への架け橋

風と言えば

愛の言葉を

ささやいている

Speaking of rainbows

Is a bridge to you

Speaking of the wind

Is like telling you

Tender whispers of nothing

Now is the time of the year when lecturers will distribute in class questionnaires with cryptic names such as SET or SME… Student Evaluation of Teaching and Student Module Evaluation. Two dozens of questions to tick and lots of space on the back to write something…What are these forms and what are they for? SET and SME have been conceived at the University of Nottingham to formalize student feedback on modules and they have been standardized to make them comparable across the years and the schools. The first set of questions on the SET are the same all over the university, the second section has been set by the schools or divisions. Fine. But why were they developed? Read the rest of this entry »

On 12 November 2009 Dr. Sergey Radchenko joined the information session of the UNNC admissions office at the Zhejiang Forestry University, where he answered questions from students interested in the postgraduate programmes offered by the UNNC.

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