Abstract
Globalization has strongly influenced higher education during the last decades. As in many
other sectors, this has generated contradictory outcomes. Enhanced competition for reputation,
talent, and resources was driven by the paradigm of the global knowledge economy
and fueled by global rankings, dynamic research funding, and international mobility. At the
same time and in response, strengthened cooperation occurred within networks, systems, and
regions. System convergence could be observed in parallel to growing divergence and stratification
of institutions. As a whole, higher education has opened up to the world and became
more engaged at global level. But how will this process continue with the current backlash
against globalization in Europe and the US and what will be the impact of other major geopolitical
trends such as the rise of China?
other sectors, this has generated contradictory outcomes. Enhanced competition for reputation,
talent, and resources was driven by the paradigm of the global knowledge economy
and fueled by global rankings, dynamic research funding, and international mobility. At the
same time and in response, strengthened cooperation occurred within networks, systems, and
regions. System convergence could be observed in parallel to growing divergence and stratification
of institutions. As a whole, higher education has opened up to the world and became
more engaged at global level. But how will this process continue with the current backlash
against globalization in Europe and the US and what will be the impact of other major geopolitical
trends such as the rise of China?
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Prospects and Future and Tasks of Universities: Digitalization - internationalization – differentiation. |
| Editors | Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development |
| Publisher | LIT Verlag Vienna |
| Pages | 259-273 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3643909374 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |