Higher Education, Globalization and Eduscapes

Forstorp, Per-Anders; Mellström, Ulf

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-44047-1

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“…We analysed these three strategy documents that represent core stages in national policy-making procedures. They follow a ‘tradition in Sweden of using templates which specify the aims and direction of politics to come’ (Forstorp and Mellström, 2018: 196) and incorporate different interests and perspectives in these processes. A Bill (the 2005 Strategy document) represents the government and needs to be endorsed by the parliament, whereas commission reports (the two 2018 documents) may include a wide range of actors from the sector and are not explicitly party political in their orientation, in contrast to government Bills.…”

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confidence: 99%

Transcending borders in higher education: Internationalisation policies in Sweden

Alexiadou

Rönnberg

2021

European Educational Research Journal

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This article examines the national and European policy contexts that shaped the Swedish internationalisation agenda in higher education since 2000, the policy ideas that were mobilised to promote it, and the national priorities that steered higher education debates. The analysis highlights how domestic and European policy priorities, as well as discourses around increasing global economic reach and building solidarity across the world, have produced an internationalisation strategy that is distinctly ‘national’. Drawing on the analysis of the most recent internationalisation strategies we argue that the particular Swedish approach to internationalisation has its ideational foundations in viewing higher education as a political instrument to promote social mobility and justice, as well as a means to develop economic competitiveness and employability capacity. In addition, internationalisation has been used to legitimise national reform goals, but also as a policy objective on its own with the ambition to position Sweden as a competitive knowledge nation in a global context.

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Section: Methodological Approach and Materialsmentioning

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Transcending borders in higher education: Internationalisation policies in Sweden

Alexiadou

Rönnberg

2021

European Educational Research Journal

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“…The globalisation of education is an international development direction, and the transnational pattern and mobility of higher education is an irresistible trend [7]. The development of Sino-foreign cooperation in higher education is a trend in social development and an essential means of achieving internationalization in education.…”

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Strategic Analysis of Sino-Foreign Higher Education Cooperative Universities Based on SWOT Model

Wang¹

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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As the internationalisation of education around the world continues to advance, cross-border cooperation between institutions is rapid, especially in the domain of higher education. As a Significant part of China's educational undertaking, Chinese-foreign cooperative education, while developing an abundance of practical international talent, has also promoted the reform and prosperity of higher education, covering various fields of economic and social construction. In this paper, a SWOT analysis of S (Strengths) W (Weaknesses) O (Opportunities) T (Threats) is conducted on the Sino-foreign higher education cooperation model. The results show that the development of Sino-foreign cooperative universities has great advantages and prospects, but the opportunities also bring the fact of fierce competition from universities of the same nature. In response to the unsatisfactory enrolment situation in 2020, strategies related to sustainable development are proposed. The enrolment aspect needs to be reasonably advertised to highlight the university's strengths; the university needs to clarify its positioning, improve the quality of teaching and increase its research output in order to improve their social status in the country.

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“…World trends in economic development, expressed in the processes of globalization and internationalization of educational services of national economies, have led to the effectiveness of the most promising form of providing these services -to their export. In the current circumstances, the direction of strategic development and approaches to the place and role of the higher education system are changing dramatically (Forstorp & Mellström, 2018). The redistribution of educational resources is becoming increasingly common in the world.…”

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confidence: 99%