Hi to all!
I read a few articles about internationalization (IZN) and wish to share with you what I found could be useful or could reconfirm our practices ka.
Let me start from an article on, 'International Advisory Councils: A New Aspect of Internationalization' by Philip Albach, et.al., published in the International Higher Education Number 87: Fall 2016.
A few world-class universities or those who aspire to be world-class (China, France, Germany, Russia, South Korea, etc.) have set up an International Advisory Council (IAC) with 6-12 foreign experts as members, as a way to achieve highest standards of research, and for some...to include teaching. Most meet once or twice a year or additional virtual meetings. Some may pay an honorarium besides the coverage of travel and accommodation for the meetings.
The authors point out that, 'An IAC shows that the university has a cosmopolitan outlook, that it receives advice from top university leaders and scholars from world-class institutions, and that it can benchmark itself with the best international practices.'
To ensure effectiveness, the universities have to value lessons from international experiences, have their actual purpose in setting up such a council, offer clear expectations for the members, specify learning and decision-making objectives of each IAC meeting, be willing to share the challenges the universities face and listen with an open mind, etc.
In fact, these points are useful for any meeting we conduct too na ka.
Another article on, 'Internationalization of the Curriculum in Israeli Colleges, by Amit Marantz-Gal confirms to us that, 'internationalization is increasingly identified by colleges as a strategic element, which can promote research opportunities and enhance qualitative aspects of curriculum development.'
In this same issue, Jamil Salmi also writes 'Excellence Initiatives to Create World-class Universities', stressing that quite a few developed countries have 'excellence initiatives', injecting additional funding to boost the performance of the university sector, which sounds very much like what OHEC has been trying to do. Most of the excellence initiatives promote IZN as a mechanism to attract top academic talent that can strengthen research capacity and reduce inbreeding.
After all, OHEC and Thai universities must realize that IZN isn't a fad! It's one of the key strategic mechanisms for us to take up seriously for our research to be stronger, for talents to work with us, for quality of our graduates and in fact the whole academic community and our country ka.
Cheers to IZN!
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