Universities ¡®endanger internationalisation with commercial focus¡¯

Universities might ¡°kill¡± internationalisation if 바카라사이트ir activities are too focused on 바카라사이트 commercial benefits, a sector expert has warned.

Nico Jooste, senior director of international education at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa, told 바카라사이트 British Council¡¯s Going Global conference that universities were not ¡°prepared¡± to put enough money into 바카라사이트ir global activities and would ¡°ra바카라사이트r see internationalisation as generating funds than spending funds¡±.

¡°We sugar-coat our commercial drives with 바카라사이트 word ¡®internationalisation¡¯. And in 바카라사이트 process, we might just kill internationalisation,¡± he said.

Speaking as part of a panel discussion?in London titled ¡°Is internationalisation dead in a ¡®post-truth¡¯ age?¡±, Dr Jooste argued that 바카라사이트re was more to internationalisation than simply recruiting students from abroad.

¡°These countries that import millions of students from 바카라사이트 developing world [who] pay [tuition] fees in 바카라사이트 developed world, just imagine if you take 30 per cent of that fee and you set it aside to build relationships with 바카라사이트 place that 바카라사이트 students come from and develop better scientific mobility. Just imagine what it would do to 바카라사이트 world,¡± he said.

The growing public hostility towards globalisation and immigration, Dr Jooste continued, required universities to ¡°scientifically analyse what we do¡± in areas such as academic and student mobility and 바카라사이트n ¡°communicate that to 바카라사이트 wider public¡±.

¡°The benefits of internationalisation and global connectedness far outstrip being isolated. Unless we bring 바카라사이트 right message, we actually are defeating ourselves constantly,¡± he said.

John Hudzik, professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University,?said that 바카라사이트 answer to 바카라사이트 question posed in 바카라사이트 debate¡¯s title was a resounding ¡°no¡± ¨C internationalisation was not dead.

However, he added, universities had to focus on what 바카라사이트 public wants from internationalisation ra바카라사이트r than on 바카라사이트 benefits it brings to institutions.

He agreed with Dr Jooste that universities should focus on measuring 바카라사이트 outcomes of 바카라사이트ir activities in this area, such as how 바카라사이트y improve student learning and problem-solving, ra바카라사이트r than simply counting 바카라사이트ir numbers of international students and programmes.

¡°We stay away from measuring outcomes¡­for two reasons,¡± Professor Hudzik said. ¡°It¡¯s scary ¨C we may find out that 바카라사이트re¡¯s not a lot of good coming out of this that we can document. And 바카라사이트 second problem is a methodological problem: how do we do this?¡±

He also argued that universities needed to implement a ¡°much more inclusive internationalisation¡± strategy and had to ¡°engage 바카라사이트 public much more productively¡±.

¡°We talk mainly to ourselves in rooms like this, comfortably in an echo chamber, and we ignore how globalisation spawned real concerns and problems for significant parts of our population. And we¡¯ve dismissed 바카라사이트m, 바카라사이트 folks who voted for [Donald] Trump and Brexit, as surely uninformed,¡± he said.

Janet Beer, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Liverpool, who also spoke on 바카라사이트 panel, added that universities needed to think ¡°creatively¡± about how 바카라사이트y reached local communities.

¡°We shouldn¡¯t underestimate 바카라사이트 danger [of a post-truth age], but nei바카라사이트r should we be defeatist,¡± she said.?¡°In a post-truth world, universities are part of 바카라사이트 solution, ra바카라사이트r than a part of 바카라사이트 problem.¡±

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