This Monday must be a great one for many of us who yearn for holidays na ka.
I've read a few articles in International Higher Education Spring 2016 and would like to highlight what I found most interesting ka.
1. Philip Altbach and Jamil Salmi in the article, "What is the 'Special Sauce" for University Innovation?" discuss the sense of innovation successfully nurtured at MIT. After helping universities in other regions develop "Mini MITs" from Moscow to Portugal and Singapore, it hasn't been successful.....very EdPEx ka--it's contextual and cultural with differing combination of many things even after having tried to focus on research, funding, accountability, autonomy and faculty's commitment, etc.; the innovation DNAs couldn't be transferred! Create our own sauce from our own recipe which could be fusion of experiences too na ka!
2. Kevin Kinser and Jason E. Lane in their article, "International Brach Campuses (IBC): Evolution of a Phenomenon" point out that "cross-border higher education is no longer unusual" as according to CBERT (Cross-border Education Research Team at the State University of NY) data, it shows that 44% of IBCs in operation have increased from 160 in 2009 to 230 end of 2015 and at least 27 were closed down.
3. Robin Matross Helms and Laura E. Rumbly have analyzed from the recent study by the ACE and CIHE (American Council on Education and the Boston College Center for International Higher Education) and identified 5 main categories of policies in place worldwide:
- Student Mobility which is most common
- Scholar Mobility and research collaboration, notably in Europe
- Cross-border education, including MOOCs
- Internationalization at Home (IaH) -- rapidly emerging critical and should follow to see future policy developments
- Comprehensive IZN, mentioning among others, Canada and Malaysia (IZN Policy for Higher Education Malaysia)
Both authors discuss that longer term outcomes and impacts of policies have yet to be seen considering the newness of the policies and a number of factors involved. They also add that national policies on IZN need to consider institutional priorities for both parties to understand their roles and achieve successful outcomes. The next level of IZN is "IZN of IZN"!
4. Uwe Brandenburg writes an article, 'The Value of Administrative Staff for IZN', which struck me a lot ka.
It says HR of the universities needs to place increasing importance to the recruitment and development of administrative staff to work on IZN, looking at the following three levels as they're interconnected from personality traits, to attitudes and competences, and work environment.
Their prior international experience has a stronger impact on internationality than developing the capacities of staff through IZN activities...simply put, I'd say ..."Don't just hire anyone who has proficiency in English like what we've seen in many universities ka!"
Personally, university administrators have also had to nurture strong IZN team who is mainly their permanent staff so they can help sustain IZN-related policies and activities while offering ideas to new administrators who take over every time there's a change in the top management ka.
Happy Songkran with lots of cool time that showers your hearts with happiness amid this summer na ka.
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