2: Principles for academic partnerships
Governing Body has approved the following principles on which the School’s academic partnerships should be based:
- in developing partnerships SOAS must consider the education environment of the partner country and try to strengthen the local educational provision;
- engagement with trans-national education (other than distance learning) should be pursued only in partnership involving a sharing of risks and costs;
- the development of new double/dual Masters degree programmes with overseas partners will be a priority;
- the development of distance PhDs and collaborative PhDs with overseas partners will be pursued as a priority as part of the process of exploiting the opportunities that degree-awarding powers would provide;
- SOAS will form alliances with only those institutions that share our values;
- SOAS should develop a number of deep, multifaceted partnerships where there is clear strategic advantage, whether this is with individual institutions or networks of institutions, whilst retaining simple partnerships where they fill a clear need (e.g. in providing for language training abroad.
The School’s Student Experience Strategy sets out its obligations and strategic aims in regard to the quality of the learning experience offered to all students, including those participating in programmes involving partner institutions. These principles will be applied within the School and Faculty planning process to all proposals for academic partnerships.
