Traditionally, international strategies focus on the recruitment of international students while international research collaborations develop at departmental level. But as internationalisation of institutions continues to rapidly grow in importance and complexity, many universities are reviewing the traditional international strategy. Universities are increasingly moving towards integrated international strategies led at the Vice-Chancellor/President level, and including internationalisation of the student experience, research partnerships and overseas course delivery. However this process brings a number of challenges.
This session explores how effective and diverse international strategies can best be developed and embedded, drawing on examples of good practice from the UK, Japan and Taiwan, including:
- how are international strategies best developed, top down or bottom up?
- how can grassroots level collaboration influence wider universities strategies?
- what is the relationship between a university’s overarching strategy and their international strategy?
- how can international strategies be effectively embedded in a university?
