Policy and Strategy
Most higher education institutions actively formulate strategies and policies with the objective of internationalizing their institutions. This can refer to recruitment strategies for international students, the study-abroad opportunities they offer their students, the international institutional networks they are involved in, or any other institutional policy issue with an international dimension.
National governments also design policies for the internationalization of the higher education sector. They facilitate and stimulate their institutions to operate internationally and are responsible for legal stipulations such as visa and security regulations.
Both institutions and national governments can have a wide variety of reasons for engaging in internationalization and international education. These can vary from economic to political and from academic to cultural. In most cases, it will be a mix of all of these.
This dossier is not only about which policies and strategies are developed, but also about who is responsible for them. Which internal and external stakeholders are involved in policymaking and what are their interests? Are internationalization policies a matter of institutional level decision-making or are strategies determined at the department level? These and related issues are addressed in this dossier.
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