South Africa’s international education sector judders back to life
It’s fair to say the pandemic was a rough period for the sector, and in general, across the world – but it posed unique challenges for South Africa.
It’s fair to say the pandemic was a rough period for the sector, and in general, across the world – but it posed unique challenges for South Africa.
South Africa's long awaited policy framework on internationalisation of higher education offers guidance on activities across the country's campuses, including joint qualifications and internationalisation at home.
Covid-19 has exposed the unpreparedness of HEIs in Africa but also provides an opportunity to re-strategise, according to speakers at an IEASA & ANIE virtual conference.
The ANIE-IEASA partnership will enable them to enhance their cooperation on the continent and carry out joint activities to promote internationalisation.
When striving to cultivate global citizens, HE stakeholders must rethink their responses to issues such as brain drain, the refugee crisis and the extent to which student mobility disproportionately benefits the elites of society, international education leaders urged.
The South African government has proposed an internationalisation strategy to strengthen economic and political relations with other countries, saying that although internationalisation exists at individual institutions it remains uncoordinated at the national level. It has plans for boosting exchange within Africa and building links globally.