TITLE:
Towards Functional Implementation of Internationalisation of Higher Education: Systematic Literature Review
AUTHORS:
Noel Drake Kufaine
KEYWORDS:
Higher Education, Internationalisation, Internationalisation of Higher Education, International Education, Leadership
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.12 No.8,
August
29,
2024
ABSTRACT: The successful implementation of internationalisation of higher education will require the leadership to better understand internationalisation in context. The paper presentation emerges from an interpretive and descriptive study which generated qualitative data through systematic literature review and document analysis. Thematic analysis was deployed to identify emerging and dominating themes as a focus for the interpretation. The analysis confirmed that internationalisation has multiple definitions, rationales and strategies that are continuously being updated. Still, the paper argues that although the diversity in definitions, rationales and strategies exist among authors show disagreement and create some confusion, on the other hand internationalisation has influenced higher education landscape. The internationalisation trend reflects that the choice of internationalisation activity is determined by appropriateness and, according to resources and capacity. Hence, the higher education leadership should approach internationalisation activities based on consequences and appropriateness; henceforth, apropos of implementation of internationalisation of higher education be driven by the context of internationalisation activities rather than by prescribed implementation. Therefore, the paper argues that there are many internationalisation implementation attributes but the dominant to be considered are understanding internationalisation, clear purpose for internationalisation, commitment to internationalisation and the leadership for internationalisation.