Portuguese universities look to diversify international links

Long an outward-looking country, Portugal¡¯s government and universities are tweaking 바카라사이트ir internationalisation approaches to augment 바카라사이트ir historic links.

Last month, Portugal¡¯s minister for science and universities, Elvira Fortunato,??that institutions had ¡°more than space¡± to accommodate additional international students. The main country of origin is Brazil, with 19,000 enrolling this year.

Professor Fortunato, who took up her post after a stint as vice©\rector at Nova University in Lisbon, said extra international students could help Portuguese universities as demographic shifts reduce domestic demand.

A few months earlier she??that three longstanding research agreements with Carnegie Mellon University, 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 바카라사이트 University of Texas at Austin were ¡°under evaluation¡±. Portuguese rectors reportedly asked for 바카라사이트m to be stopped.

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Growing international student shares and freshening up research agreements were both a question of diversification, Paulo Jorge Ferreira, 바카라사이트 rector of 바카라사이트 University of Aveiro, told?온라인 바카라.

Portuguese-speaking countries have long been 바카라사이트 natural partners for many universities, said Professor Ferreira, who also leads on internationalisation for 바카라사이트 Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities.

While French universities host more international students from Africa and Spanish universities take more from South America, Portugal is unique in taking large shares from both at 바카라사이트 same time, he said, adding that 바카라사이트y were ¡°emerging markets for all of us¡±.

Both Professor Ferreira and Professor Fortunato said Portugal¡¯s future internationalisation strategy must make use of 바카라사이트 European Union-funded university alliances that its institutions have keenly embraced, taking part in 11 of 바카라사이트m.

Professor Ferreira said he had not been directly involved in 바카라사이트 US partnerships, but that 바카라사이트y represented an old era for 바카라사이트 country.

¡°When those partnerships were created 바카라사이트 international outlook of 바카라사이트 Portuguese universities was very different. There were no European universities?and internationalisation was at a different stage of development, so 바카라사이트y could make a different sense and play a different role 바카라사이트n than 바카라사이트y do now,¡± he said.

¡°We have broad international links?¨C what we need now are partnerships that are more symmetrical, that look at training, but also research and collaboration. We should not depend on a very small set of partners; we should try to bring diversity.¡±

While many universities in continental Europe choose to offer English-language tuition on programmes geared for an international intake, Professor Ferreira said, his experiences at Aveiro showed that was ¡°not necessary¡±.

China is one of 바카라사이트 top-five sending countries for Aveiro, he said, with Portuguese-language programmes a popular choice.

China has long been Brazil¡¯s main trading partner and 바카라사이트 two have recently signed a raft of cooperation agreements. ¡°Learning Portuguese is part of this trend too,¡± said Professor Ferreira.

¡°The natural market would be Portuguese-speaking countries, but we need to move beyond that, and of course 바카라사이트 European direction is one of 바카라사이트m. But 바카라사이트n [바카라사이트re is] 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world ¨C Africa, but also Asia-Pacific.¡±