I attended a session on 'internationalizing internationalization' as it would mention about a case study in Southeast Asia only to find that it was about Thailand and surprisingly, it was one with a bit of my involvement ....I remembered it vaguely la ka.
Dr. Karen McBride, assistant director from San Jose U conducted 23 interviews on Thailand's perspectives, policies and activities relating to internationalization-- mainly leading universities and senior leaders in the higher education circle ka.
Here are some interesting findings ka:
- There are altogether 981 inter programs--- have to ask OHEC if it is accurate with one question whether we want to use it officially since we may need to make sure all are 'truly international', or it should accompany our definition mai ka??
- Our internationalization has both the eastern and western elements and I'm so glad ka that we are better in getting to be more unique to fit in with our own context, not simply copying (and sometimes not a complete copy ....without philosophy of what imported ka). The different elements are English language, privatization/university autonomy, ICT, QA, benchmarking against the west, and global workforce.
- In terms of advantages of our higher education, they include culture of hospitality, comparative infrastructure, medical science, cost of living, and geographical positioning.
- On disadvantages, English ability was the first on the list, followed by resource allocation, and formal and detailed national policy.
- There was a comment that no emphasis was on intercultural learning as our focus is on the English language itself and there is not much about other neighboring languages either ka.
Have asked her for a summary and hope to get it once she has polished the document by next month ka.
This is an interesting study which would give some issues for us to see ourselves and what we could really benefit from the advantages we have while making learning about the languages more meaningful too!
It should also be noted that the study seemed to be limited to a few research universities so far as I could gather na ka.
You bet I'll write more ka:))
Warm regards,
Porntip
Thu 5/31/2012 5:24 PM
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