Educating for Disasters: An International Engineering First

SUMMARY This paper describes a unique and innovative undergraduate degree course aimed at meeting the educational and practical needs of graduates who intend to pursue careers within the international arena of disaster management. The course was developed as a result of a unique partnership forged between Coventry University and The Fire Service College (UK), resulting in a degree programme that, while based on the well-established discipline of civil engineering, can claim to be multi-disciplined in its content, innovative in its structure and mode of delivery, and international in its perspective.