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This book investigates university internationalization in different national contexts and compares internationalization performance across national boundaries. Internationalization has been recognised by policymakers as the key to perform successfully within the new global context: the author identifies primary motivations for universities to embrace this agenda, and deconstructs the phenomenon into measurable dimensions and components. Using extensive qualitative data from university leaders and practitioners, this book analyses the global forces that shape the international education landscape, and reviews the existing instruments for measuring internationalization. In doing so, the author proposes an integrated understanding of university internationalization and indicates benchmarks that can help to quantify and measure this phenomenon. This book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of university internationalization.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Conceptualizing University Internationalization.- Chapter 3. Measuring University Internationalization.- Chapter 4. China.- Chapter 5. Singapore.- Chapter 6. Australia.- Chapter 7. An Integrated Understanding of University Internationalization across Nations.- Chapter 8. An Indicator Set for Benchmarking University Internationalization Performance across Nations.- Chapter 9. The Future of University Internationalization.
About the author
Yuan Gao is a research officer at the Centre for International Research on Education Systems at Victoria University, Australia.
Summary
This book investigates university internationalization in different national contexts and compares internationalization performance across national boundaries. Internationalization has been recognised by policymakers as the key to perform successfully within the new global context: the author identifies primary motivations for universities to embrace this agenda, and deconstructs the phenomenon into measurable dimensions and components. Using extensive qualitative data from university leaders and practitioners, this book analyses the global forces that shape the international education landscape, and reviews the existing instruments for measuring internationalization. In doing so, the author proposes an integrated understanding of university internationalization and indicates benchmarks that can help to quantify and measure this phenomenon. This book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of university internationalization.
