... education is less ethnocentric. That has been challenged a lot: there is discussion within American, British, Canadian and Australian academia about their tendency to be quite isolated from conditions in other countries. Globalization can allow for internationalization, for a dialogue between different parts of the world. That is mostly what I see on the positive side.
The negative side, though, is looking at globalization in a very specific sense, and that is as a narrower economic phenomenon where ...
... the rapid progress in human potential that lies at the core of this new, knowledge-based, economy. Many fast-growing countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), moving towards the innovation economy, focus particularly hard on the modernization and internationalization of their national educational systems
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. Only an advanced educational system meeting the requirements of an innovative, high-tech economy, that is also highly integrated with international education and science, can, in the “worldwide ...
Higher education is a major but somewhat underestimated resource of Russia's influence, but Russian universities do become visible at the international market of learning. At the same time, export of educational services and internationalization of the sector stimulate the in-house development of the educational infrastructure. Hence, in the recent years international university activities have been in the government focus.
To this end, quite important has been
conference ...
On September 14, RIAC General Director Andrey Kortunov spoke at the all-Russia conference “Internationalization of Social and Human Sciences in Russian Higher Education Institutions: Challenges and Prospects”.
Among the participants of the conference organized by ISE Center were representatives of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science,...
Moscow hosted a two-day international conference “
Internationalization imperatives
” which was organized by the
National Workforce Training Fund
in cooperation with the
Russian International Affairs Council
and the
New Eurasia Foundation
with support from the Ministry of Education and Science ...