Internationalizing higher education with national characteristics similar global trends but different responses Min Hong

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hong, Min

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--International cooperation.

Education, Higher.

higher education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : SPRINGER, 2022.

Singapore Springer 2022

Summary:

In an era of globalization, internationalization of higher education (IHE) has been constructed as an almost inevitable trend and has become a common pursuit of many nations in their higher education (HE) policies. This book focuses on two nations, China and Australia, in terms of this trend. The broadest aim of this book was to find out the interactive relationships between global and national pressures in policy development by comparing the international HE policies in China and Australia. The three categories, overarching meta-policies at the macrolevel (nation), institution focused policies at the mesolevel (universities), and people focused policies at the microlevel (individuals) are documented and analyzed. Similarities and differences are identified. Similarities include promoting and deepening IHE as one important agenda in national policies at the macrolevel in the two nations, promoting transnational cooperation in the provision of HE at the mesolevel, as well as increasing international student numbers and encouraging an outflow of student learning and exchanges at the microlevel. Differences include Chinas soft power initiatives and Australias appeal for the sustainability of international HE as a national priority in the area of IHE at the macrolevel; the focus on "World Class Universities" construction in China and strengthening the overall HE system in Australia; and different issues in relation to people mobility and brain circulationspecifically, encouraging more outflow of students and attracting more inflow of talents and international students in China, and over-reliance on international students financially in Australia. It is suggested that different responses to the global trends reflect the specificities of each nation and the ways path-dependent factors mediate global pressures. This comparison will facilitate a better understanding of how globalization has affected and been responded to in IHE policies and enable a better understanding of their path-dependent mediation through a focus on two specific sets of national policies

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Literature Review, theoretical framework and methodology

Chapter 3: Macro-Lens of IHE: National Rationales, Objectives and Strategic Priorities in Australia and China

Chapter 4: Meso-Lens of IHE: Collaboration and Competition between Universities in Australia and China

Chapter 5: Micro-Lens of IHE: Inflow and Outflow Mobility of People in Australia and China

Chapter 6: Internationalizing HE with National Characteristics

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

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Other Format:

Print version Hong, Min. Internationalizing Higher Education with National Characteristics: Similar Global Trends but Different Responses

ISBN:

9789811940828

9811940827

OCLC:

1343248984

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