Will Archer

Director of i-graduate 

i-graduate founder William Archer directs the world’s largest study of International students. Since 2005 his team has taken feedback from over 600,000 students from more than 190 countries on behalf of university and college partners in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, North America and Europe. i-graduate benchmarks the student experience and compares attitudes and aspirations around the world. Will worked previously for 15 years as an adviser to multinational corporations and governments on international recruitment, researching and recruiting talent across Asia, Africa, North America and the EU.  Will is an alumnus of London Business School, a board member of HECSU and a Council member of CIHE, the Council for Industry and Higher Education.

i-graduate deliver an advanced range of dedicated market research and consultancy services for the education sector. The i-graduate network brings international insight, risk assessment and reassurance across strategy and planning, recruitment, delivery and relationship management.
The flagship service, the International Student Barometer™, is the largest annual survey of international students in the world.

More information about i-graduate can be found at:
http://www.i-graduate.org/

 Will's Keynote presentation can be Will Archer

Jude Carroll 

Co-Director of the Centre for Teaching International Students (TIS)

 Jude is a Principal Lecturer and has worked in a variety of roles at Oxford Brookes since 1990. She was until recently a Deputy Director of the ASKe Centre for Excellence in assessment standards where she was responsible for enhancing before university's management of student plagiarism.

In 2008/9, she worked on secondment at the Royal Technical University in Stockholm Sweden as an educational developer. In her current Brookes post, Jude supports a range of projects linked to plagiarism, teaching International Students, and supporting efforts to accredit professional learning in the workplace. In 2009, she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and funded under the Prime Ministers Initiative (PMI2). Also in 2009, she was selected with a colleague, Dr Janette Ryan, to establish a centre for teaching and learning for international students (TALIS), linked to the HEA . This initiative grew out of the joint publication by Carroll and Ryan, teaching international students: improving learning for all (published by Routledge in 2005).

 Jude conducts research, writes and lectures widely on deterring students from plagiarism and on effective teaching in culturally diverse classrooms. She has served as an FDTL5 project evaluator and for the JISC-funded Plagiarism Advisory Service.

Jude holds an MA in adult and post-compulsory learning, writes widely about her areas of interest and is a member of the HE Academy.

Her Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in HE is published by OCSLD.

Jude's Keynote powerpoint can be Jude Carroll .

Ms Marte Billington

Deputy President Students’ Guild

Marte moved from Norway to Exeter in 2006 to undertake a BA in Childhood and Youth studies. During her degree she participated with various activities outside her degree. Marte was an active part of Community Action as both a council member and also a project leader setting up an older people’s project in the Community. She also took part in the Welcome Team in her second year as an international representative and in her third year she coordinated the Welcome Team as a part-time job for the Students’ Guild. She was sitting on the International student’s Council and the St Lukes Committee in her third year as an international representative.

 In 2009 Marte got elected across campus as the Deputy President of the Students’ Guild for the academic year 09/10, where an integral part of her role is to represent all international students studying at Exeter University .

Marte's keynote powerpoint can be Marte Billington .