5 October, 2018

Breakfast meeting on internationalisation

On November 8th, Staf organizes a breakfast meeting for university managements on the theme of internationalisation: How many international students and researchers do we want?

On 31 October, the Inquiry on increased internationalisation of higher education institutions is expected. The aim is to increase the internationalisation of universities and university colleges in Sweden. One of Stockholm Academic Forum’s most important tasks concerns internationalisation, by profiling Stockholm as a national and international academic center. But internationalisation can be viewed from many different perspectives. Why do we want internationalisation? Is it to strengthen education and research? Is it to promote public diplomacy, foreign and development policy? Or is it for promoting Swedish businesses and labor market?

Another question is whether there is a limit to how globally the global classroom can be?

In Denmark, a political discussion about international students is currently under way. The Danish Ministry of Research and Education believes that Denmark get to little in return from foreign students educated in Denmark, suggesting that the intake should be limited on certain programs. See an article in University World News.

We have invited two people named Andreas, to start the breakfast meeting with different perspectives on these issues. Then follows a discussion where we at Staf would like to receive feedback on how we best support the universities work with internationalization.

Andreas Göthenberg, is CEO of STINT – The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education. He wrote in STINT’s referral to the Internationalisation Inquiry that it is important that Swedish universities also see internationalisation from an international perspective. We have asked him to develop upon this.

Andreas Åkerlund, is an associate professor in history at Södertörn University. He has researched academic migration, internationalisation of higher education, and knowledge transfer and among other things, he co-authored a report for Delmi – The Migration Studies Delegation, published in April this year.

 

 

 

5 October, 2018

Breakfast meeting on internationalisation

On November 8th, Staf organizes a breakfast meeting for university managements on the theme of internationalisation: How many international students and researchers do we want?

On 31 October, the Inquiry on increased internationalisation of higher education institutions is expected. The aim is to increase the internationalisation of universities and university colleges in Sweden. One of Stockholm Academic Forum’s most important tasks concerns internationalisation, by profiling Stockholm as a national and international academic center. But internationalisation can be viewed from many different perspectives. Why do we want internationalisation? Is it to strengthen education and research? Is it to promote public diplomacy, foreign and development policy? Or is it for promoting Swedish businesses and labor market?

Another question is whether there is a limit to how globally the global classroom can be?

In Denmark, a political discussion about international students is currently under way. The Danish Ministry of Research and Education believes that Denmark get to little in return from foreign students educated in Denmark, suggesting that the intake should be limited on certain programs. See an article in University World News.

We have invited two people named Andreas, to start the breakfast meeting with different perspectives on these issues. Then follows a discussion where we at Staf would like to receive feedback on how we best support the universities work with internationalization.

Andreas Göthenberg, is CEO of STINT – The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education. He wrote in STINT’s referral to the Internationalisation Inquiry that it is important that Swedish universities also see internationalisation from an international perspective. We have asked him to develop upon this.

Andreas Åkerlund, is an associate professor in history at Södertörn University. He has researched academic migration, internationalisation of higher education, and knowledge transfer and among other things, he co-authored a report for Delmi – The Migration Studies Delegation, published in April this year.