scholarly journals Internationalization Strategies and Policies in Second-Tier Higher Education Institutions

2015 ◽  
pp. 127-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans de Wit ◽  
Miri Yemini ◽  
Randall Martin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
Second Tier

scholarly journals Internationalization of Higher Education: International Vector of the University Development Strategy

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Akulshina ◽  
L. A. Zavialova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
Federal Districts ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
Erasmus Programme

The article focuses on internationalization of higher education. It analyzes the European experience of implementing internationalization strategies on  the examples of Aston University (United Kingdom) and Sapienza University  of Rome (Italy). The authors present the results of the research on defining  the level of internationalization conducted at Russian higher education  institutions under Erasmus+ project “Development of approaches to  harmonization of comprehensive internationalization strategies in higher  education, research and innovation at EU and partner countries (HARMONY)”. The project partnership is comprised of 14 higher education institutions of  different types (classical universities, institutions of applied sciences) from 9  countries of the world, namely Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal,  Italy, Greece, Russia, Belarus, and Armenia. In Russia the questionnaires  were sent to 119 universities located in four Russian federal districts  including the Central, North-Western, Volga and Southern federal districts.  The survey was based on data of 2015–2016 academic year. Finally, the  article analyzes the cooperation between Russia and European Union in the  framework of Erasmus+ programme and the role that the programme plays  in internationalization of higher education.

Internationalizing Quality Assurance Systems With International Accreditations in Slovenian Higher Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 238-259
Author(s):  
Maruša Hauptman Komotar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
National Level ◽  
Quality Assurance System ◽  
Internationalization Process ◽  
Assurance System ◽  
Internationalization Strategies

This chapter addresses the internationalization process from the standpoint of international accreditations. More precisely, it explores whether in Slovenia their implementation is affected primarily by globalization or regionalization of (quality assurance in) higher education. Initially, it discusses globalization and regionalization from the standpoint of internationalization and Europeanization of higher education. Then, it overviews the main international (professional) accreditors, which are relevant for Slovenian higher education (institutions). In the continuation, it outlines the internationalization of Slovenian quality assurance system at the national level, whilst afterwards, it concentrates in more detail on the analysis of institutional (internationalization) strategies and official websites of Slovenian higher education institutions with respect to international accreditations. In conclusion, it highlights that having more international accreditations does not necessarily mean more internationalization of (Slovenian) higher education.

scholarly journals Changes in Internationalization at Home in Arab Higher Education Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Rosine Zgheib ◽  
Amira Van Loan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
Internationalization At Home ◽  
At Home

As global marketplace competition increases, higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Arab world purposefully integrate international and intercultural dimensions into their curriculum, known as internationalization at home (IaH), to empower graduates with the tools necessary to strengthen their economies and be productive global citizens. The purpose of this research is to report changes in the internationalization strategies of fourteen randomly selected Arab world HEIs by looking at six IaH indicators in their mission statements, course descriptions, and strategic plans. The results prioritize internationalization in the HEIs’ mission statements with a twenty per cent increase in the number of indicators between academic years 2014–15 and 2019–20. Additionally, through course descriptions/titles, we found some universities were offering up to 350 courses promoted per indicator, with others offering as few as one course per indicator. We also found sixty-five per cent of the HEIs do not have explicit strategic plans, or rather no or implicit strategic plans incorporating internationalization. As the Arab world attempts to strengthen its economies, HEIs should continue to increase IaH efforts by infusing more of the indicators in their mission statements, courses, and strategic plans.

scholarly journals Re-examining Higher Education Internationalization in Taiwan: University Strategies for Implementing Overseas Programmes

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Yuching Liao
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Institutional Goals ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
Internationalization Strategy ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Higher Education Internationalization

This study clarifies the rationale for offering overseas programmes as an internationalization strategy by Taiwanese higher education institutions through an analysis of related university documents and interview data. In doing so, this study highlights how institutional goals and characteristics, as well as social and cultural backgrounds, affect the internationalization of higher education based on the following two points. First, in addition to the pursuit of academic excellence and expanding student markets, university strategies are based on its particular history, resources, development goals, and orientation. Second, although different strategies were observed among the examined universities, the Chinese element and the pluralistic value of Taiwanese society have influenced the overseas programmes offered by Taiwanese universities. This paper argues that instead of merely adopting the international standard or pursuing academic excellence, it is essential for Taiwanese universities to implement internationalization strategies in order to determine their meaning and purpose in the context of Taiwanese higher education.

scholarly journals Hybrid Internationalization in Korea: A Promising Development?

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Hee Kyung Lee ◽  
Byung Shik Rhee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Hybrid Model ◽  
English Language ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Primary Language ◽  
Korean Higher Education ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
Promising Development

This article presents and analyzes a newly developed model of inbound internationalization of higher education in Korea—a demand-based, locally oriented, hybrid model of internationalization. This model combines existing features of internationalization—the typical study-abroad model in which international students are taught in the host country’s primary language and the decade-long Korean internationalization model, in which international students are educated in separate academic programs—with recently developed, demand-based educational programs. While conventional, English-language-driven internationalization strategies such as increasing the number of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) courses still exist, this hybrid model is becoming popular among Korean higher education institutions. Yet, although this model may seem better than conventional strategies, it still does not solve a main challenge of internationalization, academic capitalism—and it even reproduces it. This article is meant to help higher education institutions in developing countries whose primary language is not English to develop new internationalization strategies.  

scholarly journals Internationalization aimed at global social justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-590
Author(s):  
Hans De Wit ◽  
Fernanda Leal ◽  
Lisa Unangst
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Displaced Populations ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
International Interaction

The increased immersion of global higher education in a competitive, economy-oriented paradigm calls for perspectives on international interaction that are explicitly aimed at shaping cooperative, sustainable, and alternative futures. In Brazil, higher education internationalization efforts driven by the Brazilian government have historically been attached to the State’s development interests. As they have consolidated in a hegemonic way (mainly focused on Brazil’s integration in the capitalist global market), initiatives pursued by individual higher education institutions themselves gain relevance in that context. In this article, we explore the projects developed by two Brazilian federal universities – the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) – seeking to integrate refugees and displaced populations into higher education and the Brazilian society more generally. Our approach combines bibliographic and document analysis with interviews of key actors. Based on the results, we emphasize: 1. The role of Brazilian higher education institutions’ autonomy in order to develop internationalization strategies that are both contextually relevant and aimed at promoting global social justice; 2. The importance of linking existing university outreach activities aimed at marginalized groups to institutional policy for internationalization, so that internationalization efforts do not end up suppressing the more direct social role of those institutions.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF TQM, INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGIES ON THE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (HEIS)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Godinho Antunes ◽  
Pedro Ribeiro Mucharreira ◽  
Maria do Rosário Texeira Fernandes Justino ◽  
Joaquín Texeira Quirós
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Internationalization Strategies

scholarly journals Internationalization strategies in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions – time to move on and to move beyond

10.29007/dcmw ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarida Coelho ◽  
María Del Carmen Arau Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
Portuguese Higher Education ◽  
At Home

In recent decades, under the pressures of globalization and within the framework of the European Union education policies, Portuguese Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have undergone an intense process of internationalization, with rising figures in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge and research as well as student and staff international mobility and real academic cooperation amongst HEIs. Despite these indicators, other issues such as the internationalization of curricula content, student development of intercultural skills, and institutional foreign language learning policies, require attention in the debate on internationalization in Higher Education (HE) and open the challenge to the broad strategic area of “Internationalization at Home” (de Wit et al. 2015b).In this paper, which is a part of ongoing research on the introduction of the Content and Language Integrated Learning approach in Portuguese HEIs, we present an overview of the national internationalization policies in Portuguese HE over the past decade and focus on just how these policies have been transferred and transformed institutionally. We start by reviewing the different definitions of internationalization in HE, both abroad and at home, and then focus on national policies, specifically a recent Resolution of the Portuguese Council of Ministers (78/2016). Finally, we conclude arguing for the need to not only move on with these efforts but also to move beyond to broaden the scope of action of internationalization strategies in Portuguese HEIs.

scholarly journals USE OF THE SWOT-ANALYSIS METHODS IN DEVELOPING THE INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

2019 ◽  
pp. 142-154
Author(s):  
L. S. Verbovska ◽  
H. S. Stepanyuk ◽  
O. Kushlyk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Domestic Institutions ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
International Activity ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
Internationalization Strategy ◽  
The University

The article substantiates the influence of globalization processes on the development of institutions of higher education that take place in the world. The foreign countries universities experience of internationalization processes is considered. The concept of strategic management as an effective technology of higher education institutions management, particularly in the sphere of international activity and the necessity of carrying out the university diagnostics using existing strategic analysis tools, is substantiated. The potential advantages and opportunities provided by the internationalization strategy for the development of domestic institutions of higher education are determined. The development of the university internationalization strategy is based on the development of  students international academic mobility and scientific and pedagogical workers, stimulation of educational programs and scientific researches joint with foreign partners, which ensure the implementation of productive mechanisms for the integration of the higher education domestic institutions into the global scientific and educational environment. The main factors influencing the formation of the internationalization strategy and the principles on which the development of such a strategy for modern universities is based are established. The SWOT-analysis of domestic universities has been conducted and the main results of the research based on the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the international activity of higher education institutions are presented. This methodology of SWOT-analysis during developing the internationalization strategy allows combining the procedure of analytics and the procedure of choosing strategic alternatives. The SWOT-analysis matrix of  strategic alternatives has been used to help the management of  higher education institutions in formulating the internationalization strategy in the field of university international cooperation, which can be applied in such areas as internationalization of educational activities, internationalization of scientific activity, internationalization of social development. The main tasks of internationalization in Ukrainian higher education institutions and the expected results from the implementation of internationalization strategies in domestic universities are singled out.

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