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The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Maintaining Resilience for Sustainability Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh Malini Ganapathy Universiti Sains Malaysia Global Higher Education Forum 2016 St Giles Premier Hotel, Penang. 5‐7 April 2016
Introduction We l e a d
• Increase in number of students from Malaysia studying abroad – 4.3 million (2011). • A new generation of mobile young people eager to learn and expand their horizons. • Top players in international education are USA, UK, AUS, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and NZ. • Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea are emerging contenders – attracting more than 5% of the world’s international students mainly from Asian countries.
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Current Scenario We l e a d
• Malaysia has set an ambitious target to attract more foreign students in the coming years. In its National Higher Education Strategic Plan 2020, Malaysia is currently implementing strategies to become a major exporter of HE in the Asian region. • Large majority of international students are from Asia especially Iran, China and Indonesia. • Middle East countries are improving their educational facilities. Malaysia should start looking for students beyond the current region. • The focus of the research is that Malaysia should initiate to expand the international student mobility (inward bound) beyond being recognized as only a regional educational leader.
SIX STEPS RESILIENCE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN We l e a d
1. Long term exchange programme – full time and complete their study in Malaysia at undergraduate or postgraduate level. 2. Short term exchange programme – 1 ‐2 semester programme involving credit transfer. 3. Marketing in top player countries of international education 4. Setting up of education centres in top player countries of international education 5. Off‐shore campuses in top player countries of international education 6. Exchange of human resources (academics, scholars, researchers, etc)
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1. Exchange of students We l e a d
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Countries involved are USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand. International students’ top market Long‐term exchange programs The success story will make a great positive impact in channelling these students to pursue a degree at Malaysian HE institutions.
1. Why go on exchange? We l e a d
• Gain in‐depth knowledge of another culture • Experience your academic subject or view of the world through a new lens • Develop intercultural competencies that are of increasing value to future employers • Achieve something that will challenge you, encourage confidence and independence and transform you personally and intellectually
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2. Long/Short Term Exchange of students We l e a d
• Buddy system – link local students with international students. • Sustain the buddy system linkage/relationship after the exchange program duration is over to attract the students to choose Malaysia as an option to study. • Use Malaysia’s strong point to attract the students – multilingual and multicultural society.
1/2. Long/Short Term Exchange of students We l e a d
• Highlight the features of the academic programs – state of art facilities, qualified and experience academicians, encouraging environment for research, current resources which is easily accessible and recognized academic programs by reputable institutions.
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1/2.Funding options for cooperation with foreign universities
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preparatory visits subject-specific university partnerships, joint research guest lecturers research stays (post-docs) alumni conferences, summer schools students exchange, study trips joint supervision of PhD/ Master students joint programs, double degrees
3. Marketing Strategies We l e a d
• Aggressively market Malaysia’s HE institutions (public or private) – roadshows, social media, ambassadorial offices. • Popularize Malaysian HE at pre‐university level educational institutions through education pathways roadshows, sponsoring of students ( providing scholarship – partial/full) to further their study. • Participate in International Education Fairs intensively. Provide attractive packages ( academic and social) to students.
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4.Setting up of education centres in top player countries of international education
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• Education centers with permanent staff. • Showcase the recognized programs from local universities with international recognitions. Such as engineering and pharmacy programs offered by USM. • Publicity talks at foreign countries’ schools and colleges to promote Malaysian and the HE through various incentives such as scholarships, etc.
5. Off‐shore campuses in top player countries of international education
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• Collaborate with local partners at the top player countries to offer academic programs • Setting of off‐shore campuses to offer the niche academic programs. • If we can welcome off‐shore collaboration in our country such as Curtin, Monash, Newcastle, we should also venture into setting up of off‐shore campuses in Australia, UK, etc.
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5.1 Reduction in fees We l e a d
• Reduction of fees will attract more foreign students from designated countries to experience Malaysian HE. • Scholarships, loans, discounts and other incentives to attract more international students from European countries, Britain, America, Australia and New Zealand.
6. Hybridity in research and professional practices We l e a d
• A university’s international outlook matters. How can an institution expect to attract the very highest calibre of staff and students if it fails to look beyond its own national borders? • Both the diversity of a university’s student body and the extent to which its academics collaborate with international colleagues are signs of how global an institution really is, and these factors are among the 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that allow Times Higher Education to produce the most comprehensive ranking in the world. • The exchange of academics with high ranking international universities can promote hybridity of knowledge in research and professional practices.
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6.1 Academic collaboration We l e a d
• The globalization of HE brings together learners and teachers from different systems, creating a heterogeneous and diverse environment. • Encourage short term, long term and ad hoc basis academic collaboration globally as this would facilitate and reward mobility by recognizing secondments / external appointments for career progression. • Consider including international activities and mobility among criteria for promotion and career advancement.
6.2 “Must Haves” for Successful Collaboration We l e a d
Top‐level administrative support Realistic expectations Sufficient financial resources Mutual Professional respect
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6.3 Advantage of local niche area We l e a d
• Multilingual and multiethnic environments are our niche areas ‐ will be of value to traditional countries of international higher education academia. • Bank of cultural diversity to balance students’ study between academic and social growth. • Learning of Malay and other multiethnic groups’ languages.
Conclusion We l e a d
• To sustain the mobility of inward bound international students, Malaysian HE sector has to move forward and venture into the established higher education countries and not only depend on Asian region.
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