Global Perspectives in Higher Education- the contribution of development education

This paper builds on the work developed by the DEA and a range of universities on the Global University (Bourn D MacKenzie A & Shiel C 2005). It will make reference to  a framework on Global Perspectives developed at Bournemouth University and other institutions and demonstrate the relevance of development education principles and practices to the debates on internationalisation. It will finally outline through a research project entitled The Global Engineer (Bourn D & Neal I 2008) how development education and global perspectives can contribute to the debates on the future direction of engineering courses within higher education.