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PurposeThe study explores diverse and critical understandings of "international" in a higher education curriculum context, situated in a curriculum review of a postgraduate taught programme entitled "International Education" at a university located in England. Our study problematises and decentres some dominant, normalised notions of "international", exploring critical possibilities of engaging with the term for higher education internationalisation.Design/methodology/approachWe examined a set of programme curriculum documents and conducted a survey exploring teaching staff's uses and interpretations of "international" in their design and delivery of course units. Through a thematic analysis of the dataset, we identify what "international" might mean or how it may be missing across the curriculum.FindingsOur findings suggest a locally-developed conceptualisation of "international" beyond the normalised interpretation of "international" as the inclusion or comparison of multiple nations, and different, other countries around the global world. More diverse, critical understandings of the term have been considered, including international as intercultural, competences, ethics, languages and methods. The study provides an example approach to reflective scholarship that programmes can undergo in order to develop clarity, depth and purposefulness into internationalisation as enacted in a local curriculum context.Originality/valueThe study provides a first step towards establishing clearer guidelines on internationalising the curriculum by higher education institutions and individual programmes in order to challenge a superficial engagement of "international" within internationalisation. It exemplifies a starting point for making purposeful steps away from normalised notions and assumptions of international education and facilitates development towards its critical, ethically-grounded opportunities.

We study financial volatility during the global financial crisis and use the largest volatility shocks to identify major events during the crisis. Our analysis makes extensive use of high frequency (HF) financial data to model volatility and, importantly, to determine the timing within the day when the largest volatility shocks occurred. The latter helps us identify the events that may be associated with each of these shocks, and serves to illustrate the benefits of using high-frequency data. Some of the largest volatility shocks coincide, not surprisingly, with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008 and Congress's failure to pass the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act on September 29, 2008. The day with the largest volatility shock was February 27, 2007, the date when Freddie Mac announced a stricter policy for underwriting subprime loans and a date that was marked by a crash on the Chinese stock market. However, the intraday HF data shows that the main culprit was a computer glitch in the trading system. The days with the largest drops in volatility can in most cases be related to interventions by governments and central banks. ; The ADEMU Working Paper Series is being supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 European Union funding for Research & Innovation, grant agreement No 649396.