New Opportunities for Higher Education: Collaborations across borders

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New Opportunities for Higher EducationCollaborat
ions across borders

• Robin Sakamoto, Ph.D.
• Rikkyo University
• rsakamoto_at_rikkyo.ac.jp

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Changing Images
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Higher Education in Context

• Within the past two decades higher education
  enrolment has escalated from 28 million to 47
  million, mainly in Asian universities
• (World Bank, 2000, p. 27).
• This growth is projected to continue. Viet Nam
  hopes to increase higher education enrollment by
  10 per year through 2010 and both the Peoples
  Republic of China and India hope to triple higher
  education systems within the next twenty years
• (Asian Development Bank, 2008).

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Higher Education in Context cont.

• Although higher education was a priority for aid
  agencies in the 1980s and 1990s, world-wide
  emphasis on achieving the Millennium Development
  Goals has caused a shift in aid to programs that
  support basic education.
• A recent report by the Asian Development Bank
  states that their lending to higher education
  dropped from 22 in the 1970s and 1980s to 15 in
  the 1990s to about 2 since 2000
• (Asian Development Bank, 2008).

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Higher Education in Context cont.
Primary Secondary
Sources Asian Development Bank (2008), Glewwe
Kremer, 2005
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Cross-border Collaborations

• Reasons for receiving institutions
• to participate
• means to increase quality
• provide new funding streams
• develop strategies for dealing with increasing
  
• autonomy

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Cross-border Collaborations

• Reasons for providing institutions
• to participate
• insures continuation of global research
• provides opportunities for faculty consulting
• increases the status and prestige of the
• institution

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Characteristics of Cross-border Collaborations

• need for sustainable funding
• need for mutual benefit
• have a variable life span
• are linked to individual interests
• need frequent monitoring

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Examples of cross-border collaborations

• Education for Sustainable Development Research
  Center (ESDRC)
• United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences

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Potential Risks

• Initial champions lose interest or move on to
  other institutions or even the private sector
• Partnerships cease to benefit all stakeholders
• Loss of mutual trust
• Danger of swift trust vs. authentic trust

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References

• Asian Development Bank. (2008). Education and
  Skills Strategies for Accelerated Development in
  Asian and the Pacific. Manila, Philippines Asian
  Development Bank.
• Glewwe, P., Kremer, M. (2005). Schools,
  Teachers and Education Outcomes in Developing
  Countries. Harvard University Working Paper in
  Handbook on the Economics of Education.
  Cambridge, US Harvard University.
• World Bank (2000). Higher Education in Developing
  Countries Peril and Promise. Task Force on
  Higher Education and Society. Washington, D.C.
  World Bank.