I was told that I was sort of quiet especially toward the end of the year….jing jing ka as I was again running around na ka.
Yesterday, I picked up a book I read once on, ‘Who Goes Where and Why?’ by Caroline Macready and Clive Tucker, 2011. Skimmed through again on internationalization policy of a few countries studies from major importers like the US and UK to key countries in East Asia. Starting to compare the policies, I noticed that the main issues were around setting up of a central coordinating body, changing regulations to facilitate the exchanges, focus on research and science, funding sources (mainly from government support), and numbers of students attracted to exchanges, particularly the inbound students. There was very little mentioning of the English language issue. (Boy! What a HOT topic in our country, which hopefully doesn’t vapor fast ka!)
The most recent book I just got is ‘Developing Strategic International Partnerships’, edited by Susan Buck Sutton and Daniel Obst, 2011. The document focuses on formal cooperative agreements and there’re quite a few issues interesting to follow, what our country may find very useful to make our cooperation go far beyond PR and numbers ka.
I pick and choose some of the goals for partnerships specified which I find could be useful for our own circle ka. They are student learning as global citizens and future workforce; providing international learning experiences even for students who do not study abroad and even in disciplines that have historically had few such opportunities, connecting to key parts of the world; tackling pressing global issues of health, education, human rights; pursuit of public diplomacy and other national priorities, and shaping the global system of higher education in beneficial ways.
It has given suggestion on how to develop an institutional approach to partnerships as steps identified are creating systems to align with missions, set targets, develop effective practices to initiate and sustain partnerships plus review processes, etc. It seems to be nothing new, right? I think we have lots of knowledge and experiences without learning to do what we learn lae ka….like great laws in our country without proper enforcement and then keep amending laws mai ka?
For the challenges yet to be met, they are: relative newness of collaborations, avenues of support, procedural and structural roadblocks, political unrest, educational and economic inequalities, false assumptions that both sides understood the meaning of partnership in the same way, and overly ambitious but unrealistic proposals.
For me, it could be something like, making it simple yet systematic, พอเพียง yet with ambition, and friendly from our Thai hearts yet professional too ka.
Cheers.
Porntip
Wed 1/11/2012 9:25 AM
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