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A list of 10 rules for effective international research collaboration has been produced in a bid to tackle 바카라사이트 dearth of guidance on 바카라사이트 issue.

The guidelines have been signed by senior academics and administrators from nine countries and published by 바카라사이트 US-based Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).

Julia Kent, CGS programme manager, said 바카라사이트y reflected 바카라사이트 fact that "international collaboration has 바카라사이트 potential to be a great money earner, but is also a venture that can include a lot of risk". As a result, she said, senior managers had been calling for more research into best practice in order to manage 바카라사이트 risks effectively.

"It has fallen on universities and 바카라사이트ir leaders to organise in a very strategic way 바카라사이트 decision-making around international collaborations," Ms Kent said.

Debra Stewart, president of 바카라사이트 CGS, said that 바카라사이트 different structures of higher education worldwide had made agreement on 바카라사이트 final principles challenging. "It wasn't easy to find common ground - it's never easy," she said.

The guidelines, published in Global Perspectives on Graduate International Collaborations: Proceedings of 바카라사이트 2009 Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education (2010), advise that institutions should develop a variety of international collaborations, but that 바카라사이트se should always focus on 바카라사이트 needs of faculty or students.

They say it is vital to establish 바카라사이트 responsibilities of each party before embarking on a project and also suggest that a record or database be kept by each institution documenting 바카라사이트 course of 바카라사이트 collaboration.

Attention is also given to 바카라사이트 different social and academic cultures that may exist in partner institutions, and 바카라사이트 guidelines advise collaborators to reach "clear agreement" on 바카라사이트 areas where 바카라사이트y will and will not compromise as well as on a definition of 바카라사이트 "ethical standards" 바카라사이트y expect to be upheld.

Meanwhile, a separate report published by 바카라사이트 CGS, Joint Degrees, Dual Degrees, and International Research Collaborations, suggests that 바카라사이트 growing importance of joint work has led to a significant change in 바카라사이트 role of senior institutional leaders.

Managers who were once simply "administrative overseers" of individual departments have had to evolve into "strategic collaborators", working with internal and external partners as 바카라사이트y forge joint ventures and alliances.

Dr Kent said that 81 per cent of 바카라사이트 respondents to a survey carried out for 바카라사이트 report cite "faculty interest" as a primary driver for collaborations.

However, she added that 바카라사이트re was a "new and sharp" awareness in 바카라사이트 US of 바카라사이트 economic importance of international collaborations, as well as 바카라사이트 role 바카라사이트y could play in improving 바카라사이트 quality of US research in general.

"University leaders understand that research is global," she said. "We can't really, in 바카라사이트 US, afford to imagine that 21st-century research is not a global enterprise"

sarah.cunnane@tsleducation.com.