The benefits of true internationalisation

By Alex Bols. I wouldn’t try to predict the future of higher education, but I can see two likely features taking shape already. First is the increasing diversification of provision and provider. Second is internationalisation: as the world becomes more interconnected across borders, so the boundaries of higher education itself expand. In recent months I’ve been thinking a lot about internationalisation. In March I spoke at a Westminster Higher Education Forum on internationalisation of higher education and in April I was at a conference in Madrid on cross-border education. The conference in Madrid brought together several hundred experts in the Bologna process from across Europe and higher education reform experts from Tempus countries from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean region. Read more...