How do European higher education institutions internationalize?

Abroad but not abandoned: supporting student adjustment in the international placement journey

“…Internationalisation is an increasingly important objective for most higher education universities in the UK (Seeber, Meoli, and Cattaneo 2018). Equally, enhancing employability is a key objective for Business School graduates, reflected in the focus on developing transferable skills embedded in the learning outcomes of degrees (Succi and Canoci 2019).…”

Framework and operationalisation challenges for quantitative comparative research in higher education

“…In a study of the internationalisation activities (IA) of European HEIs, Seeber, Meoli, and Cattaneo () conceptualised three types of HEIs’ internationalisation profile: basic, academic and entrepreneurial. Entrepreneurial HEIs, for example, develop both IA aimed to improve research and teaching, as well as IA aimed to attract resources.…”

“…Namely, by identifying cases that are classified in different groups and display similar traits and environmental conditions except one, this one trait or condition can be regarded as the cause for the different classification. For instance, in Seeber et al’s () study, Spanish and Italian HEIs display very similar contextual conditions and traits, namely they are all universities of unitary systems, with a Napoleonic administrative tradition, endowed with similar resources and for which tuition fees represent between 10 per cent and 20 per cent of the total revenues. Yet Spanish HEIs are much more often entrepreneurial in internationalisation than Italian HEIs.…”

“…In fact, around 500 million people speak Spanish outside Spain, whereas far fewer Italian (native) speakers live outside Italy. Hence, Spanish HEIs have a much greater potential to attract students from abroad than Italian HEIs by developing entrepreneurial IA (Seeber et al, ).…”

Strategic Benefits, Symbolic Commitments: How Canadian Colleges and Universities Frame Internationalization

“…Despite a growing critical literature on internationalization in Canada (Beck, 2012;Stein, 2017;Stein & de Andreotti, 2016), the literature remains largely oriented toward the experiences of international students and the impacts of outbound student mobility (see Chen, 2006;Garson, 2016;Guo & Guo, 2017;Kenyon et al, 2012). We have surprisingly little empirical understanding of internationalization as an institutional practice-including what activities are included under the umbrella of internationalization and what values and ideas are used to justify priority activities (Grantham, 2018;Seeber et al, 2020). In this article, we draw on a set of internationalization strategies from 32 universities and colleges throughout Canada to examine how colleges and universities in Canada conceptualize and justify their internationalization practices.…”