Internationalisation

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• Internationalisation

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Introduction

• Old - 1980s
• overseas student recruitment
• off-shore campuses programs
• twinning schemes
• exchange agreements
• New - 21st Century
• Profound transformation
• Volatile market, UG decline narrowing P/G
• Old definitions outmoded

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Evolution

• Past - international operated in isolation and
  limited to overseas student recruitment
• Today - international activities are
  mainstreamed
• DVC International role created in 2006 Overall
  international strategic framework in education
  and research

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ODVCI Organisational Matrix
Country/Regional specialists Director, International Education Director, International Research Director, ODVCI
China Sample activities Sample activities Sample activities
Europe USA academic collaboration research collaboration, manage HR
Middle East AGCC transnational education policies and procedures and QA HDR scholarships, marketing and recruitment manage budget
India study abroad and students exchange. international research funding manage interface with university (insurance, planning etc)
Africa
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Statement of Internationalisation

• Monash University is a research-intensive and
  internationally-focused university which delivers
  high quality education to students from many
  countries and performs globally-relevant
  research.  Monash will engage with the world
  through its international network of campuses and
  centres through collaborative arrangements with
  leading international universities by giving
  students and staff opportunities for
  international experience and exposure and by
  engaging with the communities it serves.

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Collaboration

• forging new and sustainable partnership based on
  collaboration and mutual respect to create
  win-win outcomes
• Mechanisms
• Joint research projects and joint research
  academies
• Dual badged PhDs co-supervision across borders
• Global UG degrees semesters offered by
  universities in different countries for one
  degree either via student mobility or virtually
• Greater collaboration with industry in RD,
  curriculum design and delivery, internships and
  scholarships

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Options within the Monash Network

• Degrees taught across the Monash Network
• eg science in Malaysia with local content
• Degrees taught across faculties
• eg double degrees
• Short and long term programs at centres
• Eg Law Prato Program
• Degree based options- Global degrees
• eg BA (Global), Masters of Education (Global),
  Double Degrees

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Options with Key Partners

• Selected relationships
• Research- led teaching
• Opportunities with Partners transnational
  education collaborations
• - Joint Degrees
• - Articulations
• - Twinning Programs (22)

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Mobility

• creating opportunities for staff and student
  mobility
• Mechanisms
• Joint academic appointments between partner
  universities
• Standardised degree structures
• Mutual recognition of degrees and units within
  degrees

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Mobility opportunities

• Key partners
• Mobility partners
• Monash Abroad
• Examine options deployed for Technology in
  transnational education
• Use of webct and other platforms (eg Masters of
  Education (Global))

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Contribution

• More than equipping next generation of leaders
  with global skills and values education for
  purposes beyond monetary gain
• Making a contribution to global well-being
• Climate change
• International security
• Economic inequality

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Opportunities

• Provide opportunities for students to contribute
  to society
• Remedi (pharmacy)
• Ignite (medicine)
• engineers without borders