Pædagogisk Center Samfundsvidenskab har lige nu besøg af
Associate Professor Martin Davies fra Melbourne Universitet. I
denne forbindelse inviterer vi til en gæsteoplæg om udfordringerne
ved internationalisering set med australske øjne (senedenstående
opslag).
Tid: Onsdag den 30. november kl. 13.00-14.00
(vi starter til tiden)
Sted: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet,
Københavns Universitet, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Bygning 2, lokale
2.1.36 (se kort over CSS: http://samf.ku.dk/pdf/kort_css.pdf/)
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Pædagogisk Center Samfundsvidenskab
Thomas Harboe
Centerleder
Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
Pædagogisk Center Samfundsvidenskab
Københavns Universitet
Øster Farimagsgade 5, lokale 5.1.03
1353 København K.
TLF 35 32 35 87/35 32 45 34
DIR 35 32 35 87MOB 60 11 22 89
tha@samf.ku.dk
www.samf.ku.dk/pcs
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The Challenges of Internationalisation
"Internationalisation" is a buzzword in higher education,
and universities around the world are clambering for a slice of the
lucrative international student market. In Australia international
students was, until the recent global economic crisis, an 17
billion dollar a year export market, and international education
constitutes the third largest industry in the country (after coal
and iron ore exports). In 2010, 469,619 international students were
studying in Australia on student visas. Of these, around 40 percent
were international students enrolled in the higher education
sector. This represents a growth rate of 7.6% from 2009. This
growth has been maintained for over a decade and shows no sign of
abating, forcing universities to confront the internationalisation
phenomenon directly with a variety of measures. International
students bring many benefits, not least of which are opportunities
for student interaction, intercultural exchange, and alternative
perspectives in the classroom on a wide variety of issues. However,
as this presentation will make clear, it is not all "beer and
skittles". There are considerable challenges to the
internationalisation agenda, and institutions should embark on
internationalisation while being fully appraised of the social,
ethnic and teaching and learning policy issues that will inevitably
arise. What are the implications of the internationalisation
phenomenon for Danish higher education?
Bio
Martin Davies holds doctoral degrees in Philosophy from the
Flinders University of South Australia and the University of
Adelaide. He won the H. J. Allen Prize in Philosophy from the
University of Adelaide in 2002. He is an Associate Professor in
Higher Education and an Honorary Research Fellow in Economics in
the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of
Melbourne. He is a former editor of the A-ranked journal Higher
Education Research and Development, and is an Associate of the
argument mapping consulting company Austhink. Martin has published
scores of peer-reviewed journals articles and five books,
including: Interdisciplinary Higher Education: Perspectives and
Practicalities (Emerald, 2010) and (most recently) Study Skills for
International Postgraduate Students (Palgrave, 2011). He is
visiting Denmark on a period of sabbatical and is based in the
Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. Email:
wmdavies@unimelb.edu.au.
Web address:http://www.martindavies.com.au
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