All systems go to a global outlook: A journey to internationalisation through refocussing an undergraduate business program in a british university

Abstract

All STOP! The Undergraduate programme must be ‘refocused’, our university announced. Across the university our collective hearts sank, with thoughts of ‘how will we fit it in?’ and then our spirits lifted as the opportunities and possibilities revealed themselves and the thought of wholesale change, rather than tinkering around the edges gripped our imaginations. In this chapter we narrate our story of our interactions with the curriculum and each other, and reflect, as members of an academic team on our role in developing a new undergraduate BA Degree programme in Business and Human Resource Management (BBHRM), as part of the undergraduate curriculum review undertaken at our university, Leeds Metropolitan University (known as ‘Leeds Met’) in the United Kingdom.