Posts Tagged ‘Internationalization’

  November 4, 2011, 4:23 pm By Guest Writer The following is a guest post from Malcolm Press, pro-vice chancellor and head of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, and Christine Ennew, pro-vice chancellor for internationalization and science and a professor of marketing at the University of Nottingham. The [...]

June 3, 2011 VANCOUVER, B.C. – Is the internationalization of higher education suffering from a midlife crisis? Jane Knight, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, posed that question during a standing-room only session provocatively titled “The End of Internationalization?” Thursday at the NAFSA: Association of International [...]

What Is PROPHE? PROPHE is a global network dedicated to building knowledge about one of the most striking tendencies in higher education around the world–the development of large and often vibrant private sectors. PROPHE’s knowledge mission focuses on discovery, analysis, and dissemination, as well as creation of an international base of researchers. PROPHE neither represents [...]

Internationalisation In general Flanders EADTU European Union projects South Africa International companies In general In 2002, the Open University took its first steps towards implementation of its internationalization policy. Contrary to most institutions for higher education, the exchange of students or attracting them to come is not is a prime focus here. This is less [...]

Ensimag, a school without frontiers At the heart of a perpetually changing society, the employment market is driven by an international and multipolar context. Interacting with other cultures, becoming aware and understanding other systems and values are part of the engineering education, in a globalization context. This is why internationalization is one of the top [...]

Bologna and Lisbon’s call for increased competitiveness and globalization in higher education is developing rapidly, but so far no European-wide approach has been made to measure internationalization. Transparency and accountability in internationalization are not in place yet. To this end, a toolbox of indicators and related objectives and activities will be developed for European HEIs [...]

The State of Global Higher Ed October 5, 2010 Colleges and universities are placing more emphasis on the global student experience despite a decline in funding, the third edition of a worldwide survey on internationalization in higher education found. The new International Association of Universities report analyzes data collected last year from 745 member institutions [...]

The main sessions of the Congress of the Americas on International Education (CAIE) will consist of a new and dynamic methodology:one meeting will convene the leaders of  higher education in a classical debate, and another meeting will comprise of a series of interviews about the theme of internationalization as an essential component of quality education. [...]

An International Approach and an International Community of Scholars The IGK sees itself as making a contribution to the much-discussed restatement of German scholarship’s international potential. This internationalization requires more than just the brains of a single scholar; rather, a milieu and a site must be created in which not only joint research is facilitated [...]

Focus on internationalization Fachhochschule Osnabrück is proud of its long-standing tradition in international co-operation. The internationalisation of study and research has led to international (double-degree) study programmes: International Business and Management B.A. International Business and Management M.A. Aircraft and Flight Engineering European Mechanical Engineering Studies European Electrical Engineering Studies European Computer Science a choice of [...]