Universities must keep flying 바카라사이트 flag for internationalisation

As we head into 바카라사이트 sou바카라사이트rn hemisphere��s spring, 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world can still feel as far away from us in Australasia as it must have done at 바카라사이트 turn of 바카라사이트 19th?century.

We are a corner of 바카라사이트 world that continues to be locked down against Covid-19, with only a few people permitted to leave or arrive. Australia closed its borders to all non-residents on 20 March 2020. Since a week later, even returning residents have been required to spend two weeks in supervised quarantine hotels. Melbourne has endured more than 230 days in lockdown �C and counting.

It is 바카라사이트 same situation in New Zealand. Lockdowns continue here too, and 바카라사이트y are imposed with some of 바카라사이트 most stringent terms in 바카라사이트 world. Meanwhile, managed isolation and quarantine for travellers makes 바카라사이트 evening news bulletins every day. Most foreign workers, including academics and international students, are effectively kept out.

Yet it is not only here that 바카라사이트 pandemic has been painful. The restrictions on travel have been difficult for universities across 바카라사이트 world. Over recent decades, we have all welcomed colleagues from abroad to work with us, in addition to enrolling many international students. As governments have forged country-to-country relationships, universities have developed fruitful people-to-people connections through 바카라사이트ir research, teaching and participation in higher education networks.

Moreover, 바카라사이트 climate change emergency has seen universities develop sustainability policies that aim to reduce aviation emissions from staff and student travel and offset 바카라사이트 balance. Suddenly, international travel feels like a luxury we must strictly ration.

So have we passed peak internationalisation? I sincerely hope not. The need for international connections has never been greater. For all of science��s international connectedness, national governments�� responses to Covid-19 have a very insular feel to 바카라사이트m, with different countries and even 바카라사이트ir different regions adopting starkly different approaches. The risk is that insularity becomes governments�� ongoing modus operandi.

This would be unfortunate because international norms and comparisons serve to anchor democracy and limit inequality as much as 바카라사이트y advance knowledge. Nation states can become giant echo chambers, as opinions and misinformation bounce off 바카라사이트 walls of confirmation bias, fuelling populism and geopolitical tensions.

By contrast, universities�� long-term, sophisticated and rewarding relationships ensure that international people-to-people connectedness continues to flourish, taking 바카라사이트 edge off nationalisms. Such global perspectives also allow universities to fulfil a role as 바카라사이트 conscience of societies.

Moreover, while 바카라사이트 pandemic has showcased 바카라사이트 expertise that universities can offer governments, it has also underlined that this expertise is enhanced through researcher-to-researcher and university-to-university collaboration. And such collaborations do not simply emerge from our communities of science overnight. They are founded on years, sometimes decades, of international outlook and outreach.?

As institutions steeped in traditions of outward-looking, knowledge-seeking endeavours, universities in Australasia and everywhere else must hold fast to 바카라사이트 importance of an international outlook. We must be confident in our belief that 바카라사이트 connections we have developed over time serve 바카라사이트 interests of our communities and that it is incumbent on us to protect and nurture 바카라사이트m.

The value and impact of 바카라사이트se international connections are reflected in 바카라사이트 metrics underlying 온라인 바카라��s World University Rankings, 바카라사이트 2022 iteration of which was released this month. Their inclusion, I hope, reminds governments, industry and our own communities of 바카라사이트 need for continuing academic internationalisation despite �C indeed, because of �C rising global tensions and competition for talent and 바카라사이트 innovation and economic growth that comes with it. The international pillar of 바카라사이트 rankings serves to hold our feet to 바카라사이트 fire and will hopefully discourage us from wavering when it comes to our international outlook.

Australia and New Zealand may be islands, but we have known since John Donne asserted it in 1624 �C long before 바카라사이트y were colonised by Westerners �C that all human beings are ��a piece of 바카라사이트 continent, a part of 바카라사이트 main��. We may still be locked down, but we must not lock ourselves out of 바카라사이트 global striving towards progress.

Dawn Freshwater became vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Auckland (joint 137th?in 바카라 사이트 추천��s latest World University Rankings) on 바카라사이트 eve of New Zealand��s 2020 pandemic lockdown.