A UK Centre for Bioscience guide authored by Rachel Scudamore (University of Nottingham) with contributions from bioscience academics from across the UK.

This guide is for those who work with international students on mainstream undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in the Biosciences. It will be useful to those who want to:
• learn about cultural diversity in approaches to learning;
• find out how colleagues address commonly experienced situations;
• revisit their own assumptions and teaching practices.
The approach this guide takes to internationalisation in Higher Education values the diversity that international students bring and seeks to promote teaching where all students can participate and learn effectively.

In the guide you will find:
• a consideration of the relationship between culture and learning;
• examples of strategies that academics have found successful in
teaching a diverse range of students;
• suggestions for further reading.

This guide is based on Working with International Students: a Guide for Staff in Engineering (ISBN 978-1-904804-99-4), written by Drs. Kay Bond and Rachel Scudamore and published in 2010 by the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre as part of the Teaching International Students (TIS) Project. We are very grateful to the Engineering Subject Centre for permission to adapt the guide for the Biosciences.
We would like to thank all the staff and students who have contributed to the production of this guide.