Re-orientating internationalisation in African higher education

Singh, Mala (2010). Re-orientating internationalisation in African higher education. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 8(2) pp. 269–282.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14767721003780439

Abstract

In both policy and research contexts, internationalisation in African higher education is welcomed for its potential to strengthen local capacity and cautioned against for its potential to extend long-standing asymmetries of power in international partnerships. This paper examines two sets of developments which seek to re-orient internationalisation to allow for greater local control, local focus and local benefit. The one relates to a more formalised policy, planning and research approach to internationalisation and the other pertains to an intra-regional form of internationalisation under the influence of the Bologna process. The paper explores prospects for internationalisation on the continent to yield more equal North-South partnerships and to support the revitalisation agenda and its development priorities in higher education. It suggests that continuing lack of local capacity, continuing structural inequalities in partnerships, and insufficient interrogation of dominant concepts and models of internationalisation may still pose problems in moving towards an alternative internationalisation politics in African higher education.

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  • 1476-7732
  • Keywords
  • African higher education; internationalisation; revitalisation
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  • Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
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