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International Higher Education (globalization impact on higher education…
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Globalization, internationalization, and rankings
population, visibility, and brand
Competitive ranking could attract international students. According to the 2006 international survey, almost 50 percent of institutions used their rank for publicity purposes
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Knowledge and education as international commodities: the collapse of the common good(Altbach, P. 2015)
International education
There are positives and negatives in this new dispensation
and much of it is positive as well.
Neither has a balanced vision that takes into account pitfalls and possibilities.
In the knowledge industries, of which education is a central part, globalization is already a key feature. Now perhaps 2 million students study outside their home countries.
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The challenge for us is to understand both the context and the implications of the globalization of the knowledge economy.
Potential downsides
Maintaining standards or even accurate information in
a globalized academic environment is problematical.
quality control
As IT becomes more sophisticated and the curriculum better developed, distance offerings will
become more numerous. Already, “open universities” using mainly distance means of course delivery enrol well over 3 million students worldwide—the large majority in the developing world. Seven out of the 10 largest distance learning institutions are in developing countries.
Open markets, at least in higher education, reinforce
the inequalities that already exist. If educational borders
are completely open, the strongest and wealthiest
education providers will have unrestricted access
The new colonialism
Now, multinational corporations, media conglomerates, and even a few major universities are the new neocolonialists
What it be done?
Inevitable inequalities between the well-established, wealthy and powerful universities of the North and the less-well-endowed universities of the South are also recognized.
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