Statement from SIETAR UK about events in Ukraine

SIETAR UK strongly condemns the recent action of the Russian government  in invading Ukraine, a sovereign, independent country with a democratically elected government. This unprovoked action goes against all the values of SIETAR UK. As an organisation, we stand...

Internationalization at Home and SDGS

Internationalization of Higher Education and Globalization The Internationalization of Higher Education is a relatively recent phenomenon, whose meaning has been adapted to the circumstances and challenges that society has imposed on university education over the last...

A Color Palette

A beautiful and rich palette of colors. But how do I paint? I love seeing life as a form of art, a painting that is never finished and is being edited based on our learnings. Now, we don’t just paint at the kitchen table at home with the few primary colors we started...

Helping Modern Learners Become Intercultural Learners

by Pilar Teran & Gabriela Weglowska Introduction The fields of intercultural communication studies and intercultural education are not new, but have grown in recent decades in response to new challenges as the world has become more globalised: advances in new...

Only foreign students and staff need cultural awareness training?

The world we live and work in today has changed and diversity has become a distinguishing feature all around us, in countries, regions, cities, companies, families and in universities and classrooms. Learning to live together ‘as equals and in dignity’ (White Paper on...

Learning, Training and the Modern Learner

The role of technology in learning We are all aware that the world seems to be changing very fast, but few people anticipated quite how quickly this change would occur. Industry after industry is being digitally transformed. And there are very clear winners and losers...

How about integrating nationals towards migrants?

Written by Dr Katharina Lefringhausen  (Introduction to the research paper “Acculturation and Discrimination: A Parallel Mediation Model via Intergroup Contact and Threats” by Dr Katharina Lefringhausen, to be presented at the Mini SIETAR congress: Building Dialogues...