Internationalising Higher Education

As universities respond and adapt to globalisation and internationalisation, an emerging trend may be the gradual movement towards a 'new global regionalism' in North America, East Asia, Latin America, the Gulf States, and Africa. Within this new landscape, we may see other regions of the world building stronger regional networks and partnerships particularly relevant to international student mobility, transnational higher education
and the accelerated movement of research and technology among regional universities, businesses and government agencies. These shifts towards global regionalism may develop incrementally over the next five to ten years. Whether this new global regionalism is in response to the Bologna Process to create a more attractive and marketable European Higher Education Area is unclear. What is clear, however, is that these regions and the nations that comprise these regions are committed to building their own sustainable higher education systems and strengthening their regional capacity over the next decade. The panel will address this emerging 'new global regionalism' and examine some of the key questions, policy implications and opportunities and challenges that regional HE blocks may create for the global market and the traditional power brokers of international higher education.