ERIC ED504112: IMHE-Info. OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education, No. 1, 2002

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PROGRAMME ON INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Internationalisation Quality Review (IQR)
The international dimension of higher education has based on IQR guidelines. This gives the institution the
become an important agenda item for HEIs. Transnational opportunity to evaluate its current international activities
education, the impact of new information and and plans and their implementation; future strategies; and
communication technologies on education, and the its own assessment of outcomes. The second stage lasts two
definition of educational services as cross-border trade are months and involves the visit of an international peer-
examples of the way in which the issue is posed. review team to validate the self-assessment report, provide
Internationalisation poses many challenges for HEIs. At an external, in-depth perspective, and engage the institution
the same time, it gives institutions new opportunities for to prompt positive change. The team report is widely
positioning themselves in an increasingly competitive distributed internally and the institution determines how to
market that is reshaping institutional strategies. Descriptions disseminate the report and follow up on the process.
and definitions of international higher education abound; The cost of IQR defrays the expenses of the review visit
so do the reasons for introducing an international dimension and the costs of training the review team, briefing seminars
into higher education — political, economic, cultural, and and administration. Registration forms are available at
academics are equally numerous. www.unige.ch/eua.This work initially focused on quality
The twin issues of quality and internationalisation dovetail in higher education and led to the publication in 1999 of
in IQR. IMHE, the Academic Co-operation Association, Quality and Internationalisation in Higher Education.
the European University Association, with the co-operation ISBN 9789264170490 (see IMHE info 1999 No. 3).
of the International Network for Quality Assurance in
Participating Higher Education Institutions in 2000 and 2001
Higher Education all collaborate to provide institutions
❖ Rhodes University, South Africa
with a service for assessing and improving, where necessary,
❖ Guanajuato University, Mexico
their efforts to internationalise. IQR provides a flexible
tool for a sensitive process. ❖ Erasmus University, The Netherlands
❖ Aalborg University, Denmark
Based on a self-assessment phase and an external peer
❖ University of Valladolid, Spain
review, the IQR is tailored to each institution. The first
stage begins with the preparation of a self-assessment, ❖ University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
What do Students Expect? How do HEIs Respond?
On 3-4 December, at the IMHE Seminar on Institutional Australia, the education debate is part of the innovation
Responses to Changing Student Expectations in Paris, agenda debate concerning Australia’s ability to hold on to
project leader Peter Coaldrake summed up earlier its RD people. The issue of cost is critical, but “education
discussions as a series of questions. What is the nature and must be seen as an investment, rather than a cost.”
context of the relationships between students and President Brendan Goldsmith, Dublin Institute of
universities? How and why are student expectations Technology (21 000 students), described changing student
changing? To what extent, and how should universities expectations at his institution: there are greater numbers of
respond to student expectations? post-graduate students, more working students, and more
Are students consumers? Vice-Chancellor and RMIT students in four-year degree programmes. “Students are
President Ruth Dunkin (student population 50 000, more demanding, they want a better level of service, which
including 25% international students from 110 countries) includes everything from physical environment to support
lent nuance to this key services (library, etc.) to the quality of the learning
question. “Yes and no. environment, and professionalism. Students expect DIT to
Education is more than a keep up with the latest technology.”
simple public good Jacob Henricson, President of ESIB (National Unions of
provided to students for a Students in Europe), gives voice to student perspectives.
fee since students later “Students refuse to be identified as consumers.” In the
provide services to the recent Brussels Student Declaration concerning the
community, which in turn construction of the European Higher Education Area, ESIB
provides resources to reiterated that “Students should be regarded as a core part
education and research. of higher education, not as consumers that purchase a
RMIT President Ruth Dunkin Education plays a central product.” Communication moves students closer to
role in social cohesion.” In
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What do Students Expect? How do HEIs Respond?
decision-making structures and makes decision-making
processes more transparent. If students are to participate
more actively, they need financial support. The investment,
according to Henricson, and therefore the participation,
makes students more responsible, helps educational
structures evolve, and promotes democratic higher
education. Michael Conlon, Director of Research, Canadian
Federation of Students was “encouraged by the commitment
to public education (at the seminar). The United States and
New Zealand want education to be traded. We want
Student Leaders Michael Conlon and Jacob Henricson
government to keep education a public service and not a
globalised commodity.”
News from the Secretariat
New Members
IMHE welcomes the following new members:
Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia Sweden * Österreichische Rektorenkonferenz, Austria *
(ACUCA) * Consejera de Educacion y Cultura, Spain * Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zürich, Switzerland *
HEFCE, United Kingdom * Istanbul Technical University, Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy * Université Laval,
Turkey * Ministry of Education, Slovak Republic * Ministry Canada * University of Vienna, Austria * Universität Zürich,
of Education, Culture and Sports, Spain * Ministry of Education Switzerland
and Research, Norway * Ministry of Education and Science,
Elsewhere in the OECD
The OECD Forum on Trade in Educational Services, Knowledge and Skills for Life - PISA
Washington D.C., 23-24 May Assessing Reading, Mathematical and Scientific Literacy
Views vary widely about the benefits of trade in educational
Are students well prepared to meet the challenges of the
services, the desirability of including the sector in multilateral
future? Can they analyse, reason and communicate their
trade negotiations, and how much the initiatives aimed at
ideas effectively and continue learning throughout life? PISA,
expanding trade in education should be further promoted.
the Programme for International Student Assessment, surveys
The OECD is examining the implications of
the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in the principal
internationalisation in the demand for competences and the
industrialised countries,
supply of education and training services. More specifically,
assesses how far students
OECD is looking at trade in educational services and key
near the end of compulsory
trends and issues in international e-learning activities.
education have acquired
The first OECD Forum on Trade in Educational Services is
some of the knowledge and
being jointly organised by CERI and the Trade Directorate
skills they need to fully
of OECD, the U.S. Departments of Education and Commerce,
participate in society. It is
the National Committee for International Trade in Education,
an unprecedented attempt
the Center for Quality Assurance in International Education,
to measure student
and the World Bank, in co-operation with the Office of the
achievement scores in
U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of State.
OECD and some non-
The principal stakeholders actively involved in cross-border
OECD countries.
trade activities in education and training will use this forum
For further information:
as a platform to discuss the main issues and trends in the
http: //pisa.oecd.org
global trade of educational services. For programme
information, contact [email protected]
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Publications of Interest
Economics and Finance of Lifelong Transnational Education and the Internationalisation in European
Learning. OECD Publications. 2001. New Economy: Delivery and Quality. Non-University Higher Education.
ISBN 9264195866 UNESCO Studies on Higher Education, Bernd Wächter, ed., Lemmens. 1999.
2001. ISBN 9290691640 ISBN 3932306333
Learning is essential for progress in
the ‘knowledge society’, and critical This publication presents the papers This book explores the state of
for economic growth and social of the 2000 Global Alliance for internationalisation in Europe’s non-
w e l f a r e . Transnational university HEIs such as the Dutch
O E C D Education hogescholen, the German
M e m b e r ( G A T E ) Fachhochschulen, and the Irish
countries conference, Institutes of
h a v e co-sponsored Technology.
committed by UNESCO. State-of-the-
themselves Challenges art reports on
to making for the New 15 European
l i f e l o n g Economy: countries are
learning a Reskilling presented
reality for all and Re- along with
but the training a experts’
requisite G l o b a l papers from
resources are potentially large and Workforce; Modes of Transnational an inter-
countries differ in their capacity to Education from on-line to On-the- national
generate them. Can the challenge be Ground; The Future of a Borderless seminar held
met? This report identifies and Eduation in a Third Wave World; in Bonn on
examines the economic and financial Transnational GATE Principles and the issue.
issues that arise in implementing the Models for Transnational Educational
goal, and the strategies pursued by the Partnerships; Standards for Quality
public and private sectors. It addresses Assurance in Distance Education.
individual learning accounts,
La formation professionnelle
recognition of non-formal learning,
continue : Transformations,
and measures to raise rates of return to
contraintes et enjeux (French only).
lifelong learning. The report draws on
The Global Market for Higher Vincent Vandenberghe, ed.,
analyses, findings, and lessons from
Education: Sustainable Competitive Academia Bruyland, 2000. ISBN
earlier OECD work and the
Strategies for the New Millenium. 2872095756
proceedings of the international
conference on “Lifelong Learning as Tim Mazzarol and Geoffrey Norman The growing interest in continuing
an Affordable Investment” (Ottawa, Soutar. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001. education is part of the debate on a
December 2000). ISBN 180643293 new social issue. In the United States,
Many educational institutions now the issue is that of rising income in-
Managing the Learning University. depend on recruiting overseas students equality; in
Chris Duke. Open University Press, to survive. This Europe, it is that
2002. ISBN 0335207650 book discusses of status with
This book debunks prevailing the industry from respect to the
modern management theories and a strategic and labour market.
fashions applied to higher education s e r v i c e s This book
and provides practical guidance on a m a r k e t i n g assesses the
clear set of principles for re-energising perspective, development
higher education staff to meet the and proposes of continuing
growing needs of the knowledge a model for education,
society. Challenging advice for obtaining and analyses the
managers. maintaining a meaning of the
competitive i n t e r n a l
advantage. changes and the external impact, and
discusses its benefits.
Address change? Please inform IMHE.
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IMHE Calendar 2002
General Conference Update
23-24 May
16-18 September
OECD Forum on Trade in Education Services, Washington
16th IMHE General Conference on Incentives and
D.C. www.oecd.org.
Accountability: Instruments of Change in Higher
14-19 June
Education, OECD, Paris, France.
Roles, Identity, Strategy for New Institutions, IMHE/EUA
For programme information:
Strategic Management Seminar for University Leaders,
www.oecd.org/els/education/higher
University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
or contact IMHE at [email protected]
The programme for this flagship event promises to be 21-22 June
stimulating. The four plenary sessions provide a national, International Conference for Leaders of New Generation
an international, an institutional and an individual Universities, IMHE/University of Western Sydney,
perspective on the conference theme. Sir Howard Newby, Association of Commonwealth Universities,
Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council Sydney,Australia. www.uws.edu.au/uws/conferences/nguc
England (HEFCE), will open the discussions. Dr. Klaus
26-27 August
Landfried, Secretary General of the German Rectors’
Seminar on Managing University Libraries, OECD, Paris,
Conference will give the keynote address on the institutional
France.
milieu, and Professor Bernard Belloc, head of the Conference
of French University Presidents will respond. A round table 5-12 October
will debate internationalisation and transnational Study Visit to English and French-speaking HEIs in Canada.
education. A panel including university rectors or presidents
3-6 November
from Australia, Norway, and the United States will discuss
Strategic Management Seminar for University Leaders,
institutional identities in the context of how today’s
IMHE, in co-operation with the University of Regina Carmeli
universities are governed. Laurie Taylor, sociologist, radio
and the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific
broadcaster and well-known columnist in The Times Higher
(AUAP), Manila, The Philippines.
Education Supplement, will speak at the dinner conference.
Other Meetings of Interest
11-12 April 8-11 September
From Lisbon to the European Area of Higher Education; Crossing National, Structural and Technological Borders:
Issues of Recognition in the Framework of the Bologna Development and Management in Higher Education, 24th
Process, Council of Europe, Lisbon, Portugal. Annual EAIR Forum, Prague, The Czech Republic.
Contact: [email protected] www.org.uva.nl/eair
19-22 June 9-11 September
The Changing Universities: The Challenge of New Conference, European Universities in Crisis? Deans’
Technologies, EUNIS 2002, 8th International Conference European Academic Network, 2002 Bogaziçi University,
of European University Information Systems: Faculdade Istanbul, Turkey. Sme.belgium.eu.net.esmu
de Enghenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal. 11-14 September
www.fe.up.pt/eunis2002
14th Annual EAIE Conference, Porto, Portugal.
24-27 June www.eaie.org
Academic Values, National Dreams, Global Realities,
International Association of University Presidents XIIIth IMHE-Info is published in English and French by the OECD
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24-26 July
items to be considered for publication to:
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2002, Quality Time, The Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Deborah Glassman, Editor
Conference, North Queensville, Australia. IMHE Programme, OECD
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75775 Paris Cedex 16, France
2-4 September
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The New Educational Benefits of ICT in Higher Education,
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CHEPS European Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. [email protected]
www.oecr.nl/conference www.oecd.org/els/education/higher