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Emerging Internationalisation Models in an Uneven Global Terrain: Findings from a Global Survey
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Maringe, F.; Foskett, N.; Woodfield, S. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
We know little about how internationalisation processes are understood, rationalised and prioritised in different parts of the world. A global survey of internationalisation in universities was undertaken at the University of Southampton to fill this gap. Its purpose was to discover how strategic leaders in universities in different parts of the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, International Studies, Models, Questionnaires
The Idea of the African University in the Twenty-First Century: Some Reflections on Afrocentrism and Afroscepticism
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Horsthemke, K. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
The idea of "the African university" is usually accompanied by an emphasis on Africanisation of education, and of knowledge, on changing the demographic profile of student, staff and administrative bodies, educational syllabi and curricula, and the criteria for research activity and for throughput. The idea of "Africanising"…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Afrocentrism, Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy
The Role of the University: A Global Perspective.
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Husen, Torsten, Ed. – 1994
This collection of 12 essays is drawn from a May 1990 panel meeting in Paris, France in conjunction with a joint United Nations University/United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization project on "The Changing Role of the Universities." Papers are grouped into those on: the general role of the university, regional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Instruction, College Role