Podcast #2 - Internationalisation: An Interview with Ulrich Teichler (Kassel), 16/06/2015

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🗓️ 16 March 2016

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Ulrich Teichler discusses how European universities can implement internationalisation to stay ahead in a fast-changing world. This podcast forms part of a series, produced and disseminated by ESNA Media, on the subject of higher education and science policy. Produced, edited and narrated by Tino Brömme Audio editing by Peter Redmayne Music by Zende Music ESNA European Higher Education News, Berlin www.esna.tv U. Teichler: Universities do not just need more strategic action in terms of being a little more aware why they do what they do, how they do it and what kind of results they have. Now, the message is, you have to do everything. Universities live in an age of super-complexity where they have to do internationalisation activities in dozens of different ways concurrently. And second, that they are told by society – “this is important, globalisation is important, employability is important”, they get one message after another. But the idea was these kinds of signals are so uneven and so selective that it is necessary for universities themselves to have a clear vision of what they think, which social demands they have to take seriously for their own actions. ........... INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE HERE http://tinyurl.com/junwqsf

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0:00.0	Welcome to the second ESNA podcast on European Science Policy. After the ACA annual conference
0:08.1	2015, internationalization from strategy to implementation, we are talking to Professor
0:16.1	Ulrich Teichler, who is perhaps Germany's best known expert on higher education policy and who has
0:21.7	attended the conference in Brussels.
0:24.3	Thank you for joining us, Professor Teichler.
0:26.8	You've just attended the ACA conference internationalization from strategy to implementation in Brussels.
0:34.0	What is the most important take-home point for European universities?
0:40.0	Well, I think the single most visible outcome of the conference is universities do not just need more strategic action in terms of being a little more aware why they do what they do, what they do,
0:59.1	how they do it, and what kind of results they have. Now the message is you have to do everything.
1:05.5	Universities live in an age of super complexity where they have to do internationalization activities on dozens, on different
1:15.4	ways concurrently. And they have, and also, second, that they are told by society, this is important,
1:27.3	globalization is important, employability is important, and whatever.
1:31.3	They get one message after another, but the idea was that these kind of signals are so uneven and so selective
1:40.0	that it is necessary for universities themselves
1:44.8	to have a clear vision, what they think,
1:48.7	what wealth of social demands they have to take serious for their own actions.
1:55.8	So what is it that universities should avoid?
1:59.7	Yeah, there was a widespread argument that nowadays this competition to be visible as world-class universities has become so dominant that institutions tend to imitate just those institutions at the top and want to get more similar.
2:22.0	But somebody said an institution like Oxford does not need any internationalization strategy.
2:29.2	Foreigners are just coming and they can easy go along without any strategic behavior or attitude, whereas most
2:37.4	universities have to find solutions other than just imitating the top.
2:44.0	What lessons will German vice-rectors responsible for internationalization take home from
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