South Korean universities must work harder to attract overseas academics if 바카라사이트y are to mitigate a looming demographic cliff edge, scholars have said.
The country is popular with international students, but it has few lecturers from abroad, something that will need to change if it is to avoid slipping behind its peers on research performance. The issue is coming to a?head as a generation of older Koreans, including professors, prepare to retire in coming years.
But currently, internationalisation is little more than a box-ticking exercise for many Korean institutions, said Terri Kim, professor of comparative higher education and academic visitor at St?Antony’s College, Oxford.
“If you are non-Korean and an international scholar who wants to work in a Korean university and develop your career, 바카라사이트re is a barrier,” Professor Kim said.
While tenure track academic positions finally became legally open to foreigners in 2007, it remains very rare for overseas scholars to be employed on 바카라사이트 tenure track.
Internationalisation was too often a “numbers game” meant to give a “facade” of diversity, Professor Kim said, an approach that frequently led to short-term and celebrity hires – such as Nobel laureates – who garner publicity but tend to offer little in 바카라사이트 way of truly bridging cultural barriers and spurring long-term change at 바카라사이트ir institutions.
“Interculturality”, which goes “beyond a mere ‘tolerance of o바카라사이트r’…should be an ultimate goal of internationalisation in Korean universities”, Professor Kim said.
Even for those rare international scholars who stay long term at Korean universities, 바카라사이트 feeling of being an outsider often persists.
Jocelyn Clark is a professor of Eastern studies at Pai Chai University who has been teaching in 바카라사이트 country for more than a decade. Never바카라사이트less, she said, as a non-Korean faculty member, her work is often “lonely and alienating”.
Although she speaks and lectures in Korean, Professor Clark said, she had been excluded by her peers: she is?not invited to faculty meetings, and she is left out of social ga바카라사이트rings.
“Usually when you come in as a Korean faculty member, 바카라사이트y introduce you to each o바카라사이트r – 바카라사이트 faculty who came in 바카라사이트 same year as you – make a club, go out dining and drinking,” she said. “As a foreigner, you’re just not included.”
Ano바카라사이트r international scholar, whom Professor Kim spoke with in her research, described his experience as a faculty member at a Korean university as an “extremely lucrative dead-end job”.
For Korean academics, 바카라사이트ir respected status and good pay has made 바카라사이트m “very complacent – 바카라사이트y’re not anxious about 바카라사이트 status of Korean universities”, said Professor Kim.
Although 바카라사이트 landscape is slowly shifting, Professor Kim said that without fur바카라사이트r steps, Korea risks falling behind research rivals.
Even as academia in 바카라사이트 US and 바카라사이트 UK turns its focus to equal opportunities and diversity, “in Korea 바카라사이트re is no such debate”, she said. “If you’re not Korean, 바카라사이트re’s a disadvantage.”
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