International Education Association of South Africa

IEASA held its annual conference in Cape Town from 29 August to 1 September. University World News was there, along with more than 250 academics and international higher education practitioners from around the world. This is the first of a two-part Special Report on the conference.

GLOBAL

Bring internationalisation back into academia – Hans De Wit

Karen MacGregor

The internationalisation of higher education must be taken out of international offices and “brought back to where it belongs – in academia”, according to Hans de Wit. It is a mistake to see research and internationalisation as administrative issues residing in a research or an international office.

SOUTH AFRICA

Government to draft an internationalisation policy

Karen MacGregor

Eighteen years after South Africa’s new democracy ushered in tens of thousands of foreign students, the government is drafting policy frameworks and an international relations strategy for international higher education.

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