Globalisation of Higher Education

Political, Institutional, Cultural, and Personal Perspectives

Claus Nygaard

• Publisher: Libri Publishing
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781911450092
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

This latest volumein the Learning in Higher Education series, Globalisation of Higher Education, explores the idea that globalisation is both an opportunity and a challenge tohigher education. Universities open up branches in foreign countries. Neweducational partnerships are being established across borders. We seeglobalisation of higher education on the rise everywhere. Is there a perfect modelof globalisation of higher education? The editors think not. Nevertheless, theybelieve that we can learn a lot from studying excellent contextualglobalisation practices taking place at universities around the world. This book presents 11 cases of globalisation of higher education. Thecases are grouped within four perspectives: 1) politicalperspectives 2) institutional perspectives 3) cultural perspectives 4) personalperspectives. Globalisationof Higher Educationexamines how universities arecurrently dealing with globalisation. Chapters are written by faculty membersand administrators at universities, who all share the knowledge and practice ofhaving developed international, transnational, or global offerings in form ofeducational programmes and courses. They describe their challenges, and howthey have dealt with those.