Internationalisation Of Higher Education Emily Bruni Analysis
Internationalisation of higher education is an increasing phenomenon in todays world. In Emily Rauhala’s article, she discussed about the increasing number of students from mainland China aspiring to gain admission into United States (U.S.) schools. However, this increasing competition has pressured some people, be it students, teachers or organisations, to resort to cheating means. Rauhala then argues that the U.S should do something to face the growing internationalisation of higher education in its country. In the next article, Frank Bruni addresses the issue of competition by looking into a wide range of education opportunities found in schools that are elite but not in the Ivy League. He argues that though internationalisation of higher
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Therefore, he feels people should learn to acknowledge this fact and focus on other elite schools that may provide a more fulfilling education to the individual. This is in fact consistent with Singapore where the government tries to accommodate to the increased number of applicants to universities by creating new universities like Singapore University of Design and Technology (SUTD), Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) and others. Each new university has a different focus with SUTD more inclined towards engineering and design while SIT cater mostly to polytechnic graduates. This provides more opportunities for applicants to consider, instead of just applying to the more prestige universities like National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technology of University (NTU). Furthermore, we can also see that governments and institutions all over the world are doing their best to accommodate and adapt to the increasing internationalisation of higher education. This can be seen by the planning of the first ever global conference on higher education. The conference will address the issues …show more content…
However, this is an assumption. According to Cleary’s article, there are indeed glaring disadvantages to studying abroad. Firstly, the cost of pursuing higher education overseas is very high. In Australia, the cost alone for an undergraduate degree for international students range from $15k-$30k annually as compared to its fees for local students at $7k-$10k. This is not even including the cost of living the student would incur overseas. The significantly higher fees for international students is definitely a huge factor of how studying abroad may not be the ideal choice for everyone. Furthermore, governments and institutions are starting to implement policies to ensure that local universities still appeal to their locals. This can be seen by student exchange programmes set up where students get to experience education in a different country for one or two semesters while still paying local university fees. Also, most governments subsidise their local students, like in Australia, where the government has schemes called “Higher Education Loan Programme” and “Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support”, which gives out loans to local students and offer subsidies from the government
Therefore, he feels people should learn to acknowledge this fact and focus on other elite schools that may provide a more fulfilling education to the individual. This is in fact consistent with Singapore where the government tries to accommodate to the increased number of applicants to universities by creating new universities like Singapore University of Design and Technology (SUTD), Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) and others. Each new university has a different focus with SUTD more inclined towards engineering and design while SIT cater mostly to polytechnic graduates. This provides more opportunities for applicants to consider, instead of just applying to the more prestige universities like National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technology of University (NTU). Furthermore, we can also see that governments and institutions all over the world are doing their best to accommodate and adapt to the increasing internationalisation of higher education. This can be seen by the planning of the first ever global conference on higher education. The conference will address the issues …show more content…
However, this is an assumption. According to Cleary’s article, there are indeed glaring disadvantages to studying abroad. Firstly, the cost of pursuing higher education overseas is very high. In Australia, the cost alone for an undergraduate degree for international students range from $15k-$30k annually as compared to its fees for local students at $7k-$10k. This is not even including the cost of living the student would incur overseas. The significantly higher fees for international students is definitely a huge factor of how studying abroad may not be the ideal choice for everyone. Furthermore, governments and institutions are starting to implement policies to ensure that local universities still appeal to their locals. This can be seen by student exchange programmes set up where students get to experience education in a different country for one or two semesters while still paying local university fees. Also, most governments subsidise their local students, like in Australia, where the government has schemes called “Higher Education Loan Programme” and “Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support”, which gives out loans to local students and offer subsidies from the government