Ubuntu: I am who I am because of you

By Leonard Engel and Hans-Georg van Liempd. Are international education associations living in their own bubble? What do they do to create access and equity for people and ideas from emerging or developing countries? How can they work together to advance the internationalisation of the higher education agenda? These were some of the questions contemplated by the leaders of key international higher education organisations who gathered in Port Elizabeth, South Africa last week to discuss the future agenda of the internationalisation of higher education.
This Global Dialogue was a first in its kind and was initiated and hosted by the EAIE’s sister organisation, the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA). One of the aims was to have an “in-depth discussion about the power relationships that currently drive the world of higher education internationalisation”, and – one may add – the discourse about internationalisation. More...