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ABSTRACT
For many universities around the world, internationalisation means the recruitment of fee-paying international students (so-called export education) for primarily commercial reasons. For UK universities, international (non-European Union) students account for approximately 13% of their annual revenues, making them highly dependent on international student recruitment. This paper discusses the attempt by one UK university to change direction and develop a new approach to internationalisation which puts an international learning experience for all students at the heart of its new strategic plan. It discusses the obstacles to changing direction in this way and shares some of the lessons learned about how to roll out an alternative university-wide internationalisation strategy.
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Notes on contributor
Professor Nigel Healey is Vice-Chancellor of Fiji National University. He has previously served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) of Nottingham Trent University in the UK and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His current research interests are in the internationalization of higher education, transnational education and higher education policy and management.
Dr Healey served as an economic policy advisor to the Prime Minister of Belarus and the Deputy Minister of Economy of the Russian Federation and managed multinational research and economic development projects in Europe and the Asia-Pacific. He is presently chair of the QS-APPLE international academic conference committee, which organizes a major international education conference each year in the Asia-Pacific.
Healey holds a BA (Hons.) Economics from the University of Nottingham, an MA Economics from the University of Leeds, an MBA from the University of Warwick and a DBA from the University of Bath. He is a Chartered Manager, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
ORCID
Nigel M Healey http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6553-4095
Notes
1 Note: the OECD defines international students as students who normally reside in another country, while in the UK, only non-European Union students are classified as international students.