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16 août 2013

Explaining postdoc internationalization at US universities

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/174887_161806250531786_2075947517_q.jpgBy Marielk. This guest entry is written by Dr. Brendan Cantwell who is currently employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Educational Administration at Michigan State University. His current research interests include higher education organization, governance and policy, with focus on comparative education, political economy and theory.
Since the 1990s over 50% of all postdoctoral researchers (‘postdocs’) working at universities in the United States (US) have been temporary visa holders, or ‘international’. This makes postdocs the most internationalized group at American universities.
The fact that over 50% of postdocs are international is especially striking when compared to student enrollments; international students accounted for only 3.7% of total enrollments in the US during the 2011/2012 academic year. Why, then, do most postdocs come from abroad?
Over parts of the past five years I have studied the employment of international postdocs, primarily in the US but also in the United Kingdom. One of my objectives was to understand why so many researchers work as postdocs abroad. I began this research qualitatively by interviewing international postdocs and their supervisors. I examined the experiences of international postdocs, the role international postdocs play in the production of knowledge, and the process by which postdocs become employed internationally.  From these studies I drew two main conclusions. Read more...

15 août 2013

EUA welcomes proposed new EU strategy for internationalisation of European higher education

http://www.eua.be/images/logo.jpgOn 11 July, the European Commission launched the Communication “European higher education in the world”, which outlines a strategy for the internationalisation of European higher education.
EUA welcomes the Communication as it places emphasis on the broad range of issues that are important for the internationalisation of European higher education. The document, which references the EC’s recent Communications “Modernising Europe’s Higher Education Systems” and “Rethinking Education”, places specific emphasis on how member states and higher education institutions can develop strategic international partnerships to tackle global challenges more effectively.
Among the key priorities outlined is the development of comprehensive internationalisation strategies at national and institutional level. The Commission states that such strategies should cover the following areas:

  • The promotion of international mobility of students and staff (for example through enhanced services for mobility, tools for recognition of studies, better visa procedures for foreign students and emphasis on two-way mobility – into and out of Europe).
  • The promotion of “internationalisation at home” and digital learning (including language learning, using ICT to internationalise curricula).
  • The strengthening of strategic cooperation, partnerships and capacity building (with emphasis on joint and double degrees, partnerships with business and also international development cooperation partnerships).

The EC aims to contribute to the realisation of this strategy through stronger policy support and financial incentives for internationalisation strategies in particular through the future EU programme for education that will be called Erasmus+ (formerly called Erasmus for All). Read more...

19 juillet 2013

Une nouvelle stratégie pour l'internationalisation de l'enseignement supérieur

http://www.amue.fr/fileadmin/amue/divers/photos-etablissements/2013-06-07-paris13.jpgUne nouvelle stratégie pour l'internationalisation de l'enseignement supérieur
La Commission européenne a communiqué sa nouvelle stratégie pour l’internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur. Une stratégie à double objectifs : garantir que les diplômés de l'UE aient les « compétences internationales nécessaires pour travailler partout dans le monde » et faire que l'Europe reste la destination la plus attrayante pour les étudiants.  Aujourd’hui, l'UE attire environ 45% de l'ensemble des étudiants internationaux. En savoir + > Communication de la Commission - L’enseignement supérieur européen dans le monde.
Si plusieurs États membres et un grand nombre d'EES ont déjà mis en place leur stratégie d'internationalisation de l'enseignement supérieur, il n’en reste pas moins que celles-ci sont souvent principalement axées sur la mobilité étudiante: la coopération universitaire internationale est généralement très fragmentée, repose sur des initiatives d’universitaires ou d'équipes de recherche isolés, et pas nécessairement liée à la stratégie d’un établissement ou à une stratégie nationale. Pour être efficaces, les stratégies devraient également prévoir l’élaboration de programmes de cours internationaux, l’établissement de partenariats stratégiques et l'exploration de nouveaux modes de mise à disposition de contenus, et, dans une perspective plus large, garantir la complémentarité avec les politiques nationales ayant trait à la coopération extérieure, au développement international, à la migration, au commerce, au travail, au développement régional, à la recherche et à l'innovation. Une enquête récemment effectuée par l’Association européenne de l'université (European University Association) montre qu'une majorité d’EES considère que les stratégies d’internationalisation nationales et des établissements ont un effet positif sur leurs activités d’internationalisation.
La mise en place d’une stratégie d’internationalisation globale consiste avant tout à positionner un EES, c’est-à-dire ses étudiants, ses chercheurs et son personnel, ainsi que les systèmes nationaux dans toutes les activités pertinentes de recherche, d'innovation et d’enseignement supérieur, sur la scène mondiale, en fonction de son profil particulier ainsi que des besoins changeants du marché du travail et de la stratégie économique du pays concerné. Étant donné qu’il n’existe pas de méthode universelle pour y parvenir, les États membres devraient affiner leurs stratégies nationales de manière à renforcer leurs points forts et leur présence internationale et à attirer des talents, en tenant compte des pénuries de compétences nationales et interculturelles recensées et en étant conscient des besoins en termes de connaissances et de recherche des pays en développement desquels ils sont partenaires. Dès lors, il y a lieu de considérer les propositions de priorités stratégiques pour les EES et les États membres qui sont énumérées ci-après comme une panoplie de mesures que ceux-ci devraient panacher en fonction de leurs besoins, dans le cadre d'une stratégie globale. En savoir + > Communication de la Commission - L’enseignement supérieur européen dans le monde.
http://www.amue.fr/fileadmin/amue/divers/photos-etablissements/2013-06-07-paris13.jpg Nauja strategija aukštojo mokslo internacionalizavimo
Europos Komisija paskelbė apie savo naują strategiją dėl aukštojo mokslo internacionalizavimo.
Dviejų krypčių strategija: užtikrinti, kad absolventai turi ES "tarptautinės įgūdžių dirbti bet kurioje pasaulio vietoje" ir užtikrinti, kad Europa ir toliau lieka labiausiai patraukli mokiniams. Daugiau...
14 juillet 2013

Internationalising academic calendar tricky for Tokyo

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Suvendrini Kakuchi. Bringing Japan’s academic calendar in line with universities around the world, in particular replacing the traditional April enrolment date with September or October entry, has been seen as important for internationaliaing higher education and promoting exchange opportunities for students and academics between Japan and other countries. But it is proving difficult. A Tokyo University committee was set up last year to examine how to implement the change, after the university’s President Junichi Hamada said he intended to introduce autumn enrolment by 2015. Read more...
30 juin 2013

The benefits of true internationalisation

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy 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...
30 juin 2013

Abeducation – A new push for higher education internationalisation

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Alya Mishra. Following the much-touted “Abenomics” floated by the administration of Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to revive the country’s stagnant economy, Tokyo last week unveiled “Abeducation” to promote the internationalisation of the country’s higher education. Abeducation, Abe’s growth strategy for education to develop human resources that can “prevail on the world stage”, is the latest official bid to reconstruct Japan. This is in line with new economic policies such as injecting new funds into the economy and other initiatives to resurrect Japan`s sagging clout in the world. Read more...
16 juin 2013

Internationalisation at home – Crossing other borders

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Hanneke Teekens. It was about 15 years ago that the term ‘internationalisation at home’ was coined when a group of people – I was among them – started to talk and publish about it. In essence ‘internationalisation at home’ is about inclusion, diversity and reciprocity in international education, crossing borders by reaching out to 'otherness'. Our original concern was that internationalisation in higher education was looking too much at student mobility numbers, in particular incoming students. Read more...
2 juin 2013

How are we doing higher education internationalisation?

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Marc Tadaki. Internationalisation has become a mantra in higher education. The knowledge economy is a global network, we are told, and universities across the world are encouraged to ‘plug in’ in various ways in order to reap the benefits of global interconnectedness, as well as to avoid the perils of parochialism. Rankings are the new currency of quality, English the official language of science – there is a discourse of convergence that promotes the inevitability of a singular vision for university structure, function and aims. Read more...
1 juin 2013

Getting internationalisation right

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fKag1zsmmFA/TmhpGfmaPZI/AAAAAAAAADE/l2BFF4kPiY8/s1600/Bandeau904x81.pngBy Andreas Schleicher. The exceptional turnout at the 2013 OECD/Japan Seminar  in Tokyo this week, where over 300 participants from over 20 countries discussed global strategies for higher education, shows that the seminar had exactly the right agenda at exactly the right time. I asked myself how many people would have turned up had this seminar been held five years ago; or whether five years ago, Japan would have ventured to take the lead on this theme. At long last higher education has become a global enterprise, with a rapidly growing number of students who are going global, with educational content going global, and with providers of higher education going global. Read more...
1 juin 2013

European Commission soon to present Communication on internationalisation of higher education

http://www.aca-secretariat.be/fileadmin/templates/2009/images/logosmall.jpgIn 2011, the European Commission came up with a Communication entitled Modernising Europe’s higher education systems. This document unfolded the Commission’s policy objectives mainly for intra-European cooperation in the tertiary sector. A similar document, relating to the Commission’s intentions in a global context, is expected to follow, most probably in June. The ACA Newsletter - Education Europe has been able to gain insight into some of the key issues of this document, which is likely to be named European higher education in the world.
One of the principle notions behind the document is that of comprehensive internationalisation strategies, which universities and member states are expected to develop and pursue. Such strategies would entail at least three elements: the mobility of students and staff (plus related issues such as recognition, visas, etc.); the internationalisation of curricula (known as ‘internationalisation at home’) and digitally-based learning; as well as strategic cooperation, partnerships and capacity building. At the level of detail, one can spot many of the pet subjects of recent years, but also new phenomena. One of those is the MOOCs, which the document will apparently highlight as a major development in higher education, even though it is not entirely clear which conclusions to draw from this assessment.
Concerning its own EU-level contribution, the Commission is likely to point to the increased opportunities for third-country cooperation under the new Erasmus for All Programme (which may carry another name in the final version) and the Marie Curie scheme, as well as to U-Multirank and its various other ‘transparency tools’. From all we know, the Communication will at long last pick up a long-time ACA proposal for complementing national information and marketing efforts by a European promotion dimension. It also appears that there are plans to widen the ‘evidence base’ supporting policies on global higher education, by commissioning studies, statistical analysis and expert consultation.

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