The international strategies of universities: deliberate or emergent?

Soliman, Samar; Anchor, J.R; Taylor, David W.

doi:10.1080/03075079.2018.1445985

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“…Increasingly, universities are developing internationalisation strategies. This international focus can provide an opportunity for universities to bring international practices in sustainability back to the local level (Soliman et al, 2018). Lozano et al (2015) include the following activities in outreach linked to sustainable development: exchange programmes, joint degrees with other universities, joint research, partnerships with external organisations, events open to the community.…”

Section: Review Of the Literature On Higher Education And Sustainabilmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of higher education institutions in sustainability initiatives at the local level

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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Universities are central players and important economic actors in many regions, and many of them are, in general, nationally and internationally active in respect of matters related to sustainable development. But there is a paucity of research which examines their contributions towards sustainability efforts at the local level, i.e. in the places they are situated. This paper addresses this need, by reporting on a qualitative study deploying a Matrix, which allows an analysis and reporting of regional sustainable development initiatives of a set of 22 universities in industrialised and developing countries. Recommendations to enhance their role are provided, including the importance of pursuing partnerships and joint initiatives, understanding the need of local communities, and making their know-how more widely available. The scientific value of this research is related to the understanding of how the interaction between universities and local communities happens and by shedding light to this topic, it supports universities to improve their own actions. Its implications are twofold: it demonstrates the potential of universities as local players, and outlines the range of activities they may engage with, and which may allow them to act as pillars to local sustainability initiatives.

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Section: Review Of the Literature On Higher Education And Sustainabilmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of higher education institutions in sustainability initiatives at the local level

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Vargas

Salvia

et al. 2019

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“…Many foreign countries followed this path. Foreign studies on universities' internationalization are concentrated mainly on research of internal environment and organizational changes taking place in it [15][16][17][18][19][20]. In a number of lead countries in terms of educational exports strategies for universities' internationalization are adopted at national level (for example, in Finland 2 , Sweden 3 , the Great Britain [21], France [22], Australia 4 , etc.).…”

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Export of higher education VS Internalization of a university: a view of sub-center universities in Russia

Bakumenko¹,

Makhotaeva²,

Николаев³

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Proceedings of the International Scientific-Practical Conference “Business Cooperation as a Resource of Sustainable Economic De

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The RF focuses now on export services development, in particular, in the field of higher education and life long learning. The priority project "Development of export potential of Russian education system" set serious goals for domestic universities to increase the number of foreign students and the income from export activities. Achieving the goals set and ensuring their sustainable development in the long term period is only possible by adapting universities' internal environment to the requirements of internationalization. The goal of the research is to develop specific recommendations to manage internal internationalization of a university, including organizational, structural, and functional transformation. To this end, theoretical approaches and good practices were analyzed, representatives of Russian universities' international offices were interviewed, and a review of universities' internationalization strategies was carried out. It was concluded that internationalization activities of Russian universities are focused primarily on developing external relations, and not on changing their internal environment. Practical recommendations were developed to manage organizational changes at an internationalizing university depending on internationalization stage and degree of immersion into foreign marketing. The presented recommendations may be used by universities that are at the beginning of international activities, in particular, when developing internationalization strategies Keywords-university internationalization; export of education; internationalization strategy; international activities; foreign marketing The research was carried out with the financial support of Russian Foundation for Basic Research within the framework of a scientific project № 18-410-600004 r_a. I.

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“…[10] Speaking about the role of the communicative competence in the personal socialisation, it should be pointed out that it is an important prerequisite for effective adaptation in the closest community. [11] The decreased communicative competence causes a decline in communication activity (narrowing the social network, selectivity in communication, introverting and self-isolation), and stronger emotional reaction to the social impact, dissatisfaction with various interpersonal relations. Without proper communicative skills, a university graduate is unable to adapt to the professional community, to engage with colleagues, to remember and process a large volume of information and so on.…”

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Scientific Conferences as Way to Develop Students’ Foreign Language Communicative Competence

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The issues of the student engagement in science-related activities and the development of students' language communicative competence are especially relevant in a technical university, where due to the prevailing of the Sciences, the professional communicative competence has become increasingly vital. The goal of this article is to examine how interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages can foster the foreign language communicative competence of students. In the article, we present the definition and the three basic models of communicative competence. A method of pedagogical observation is used that represents comprehension and analysis of goal-oriented preparation of students for practical scientific conferences. We reveal the fact that interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages allow educators to foster the foreign language communicative competence of students and deepen their knowledge in professional area, as well as to equip them with research skills since students' participation in the conferences increases their attention and focus, motivates them to practice critical thinking skills of high level.

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The international strategies of universities: deliberate or emergent?

Cited by 52 publications

References 36 publications

The role of higher education institutions in sustainability initiatives at the local level

The role of higher education institutions in sustainability initiatives at the local level

Export of higher education VS Internalization of a university: a view of sub-center universities in Russia

Scientific Conferences as Way to Develop Students’ Foreign Language Communicative Competence

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