The Internationalization of Higher Education: Motivations and Realities

By P. Altbach, Jane Knight. 2007

1,736 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Political Science and International Relations

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In Education

1. J. Knight
2. J. Huisman
3. Stephen Wilkins
4. P. Altbach
5. Jung Cheol Shin

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. J. Knight
2. Stephen Wilkins
3. J. Huisman
4. P. Altbach
5. U. Teichler
6. R. Trilokekar

In Political Science and International Relations

1. J. Huisman
2. Stephen Wilkins
3. J. Knight
4. P. Altbach
5. U. Teichler
6. M. Balakrishnan
7. E. Hazelkorn
8. N. Healey

Citations in the corpus

• Exploring perceived service quality, perceived value, and repurchase intention in higher education using structural equation modelling (2014, positive): “One of the most important trends in HE is internationalisation (Altbach & Knight, 2007; de Rijke & Plucker, 2011).”
• Advancing the national and global knowledge economy: the role of research universities in developing countries (2013, positive): “They are more likely to have administrative staff to support international activities than other academic institutions, and are more able to support foreign students and faculty on their campuses (Altbach and Knight 2007).”
• Why do higher education institutions internationalize? An investigation of the multilevel determinants of internationalization rationales (2016, neutral): “…emerged as a prominent mission for modern universities (Scott 2006), which now assign specific motivations – i.e. rationales – to internationalization (Altbach and Knight 2007; De Wit 1999; Knight 1999, 2004) and develop strategies to pursue internationalization (Davies 1995; Taylor 2004; Ayoubi…”
• Education Hubs: A Fad, a Brand, an Innovation? (2011, positive): “Factors driving this growth included the increased demand for tertiary education arising from larger secondary school cohorts and the knowledge economy’s need for a skilled labor force (Altbach & Knight, 2006).”
• International student destination choice: the influence of home campus experience on the decision to consider branch campuses (2011, positive): “The literature reveals that universities in Western countries such as the US, UK and Australia depend heavily on international students as a source of revenue, as contributors to research and teaching activity, and as a means to increase cultural diversity (Altbach & Knight, 2007 ; Bolsmann & Mille”
• Higher education in the United Arab Emirates: an analysis of the outcomes of significant increases in supply and competition (2010, neutral): “Some foreign universities were undoubtedly tempted by the prospect of easy revenue generation in a wealthy country (Altbach & Knight, 2007 ; Naidoo, 2010 ), and some probably made the decision to set up in the UAE without doing sufficient market research.”
• The Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion and Job Satisfaction on the Relationship Between Job Demands and Instigated Workplace Incivility (2018, neutral): “…transition into a knowledge economy (Arokiasamy, Ismail, Ahmad, & Othman, 2009) and the need to match teaching quality to high societal expectations (Altbach & Knight, 2007; Vardi, 2011), academic staff in Malaysia are currently experiencing intensified workload as they are required to fulfil a…”
• Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution: A Report Prepared for the UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education (2010, neutral): “Branch campuses, offshore academic programs, and franchising arrangements for academic degrees represent only a few manifestations of such internationalization strategies (Altbach and Knight, 2007).”
• International education as soft power? The contributions and challenges of Canadian foreign policy to the internationalization of higher education (2010, neutral): “‘‘Internationalization is often confused with globalization…while globalization maybe unalterable, internationalization involves many choices.’’ ( Altbach and Knight 2007, pp. 290 –291).”
• The changing landscape of higher education internationalisation – for better or worse? (2013, neutral): “Institutions must ask how an increased emphasis on the ‘buying and selling’ of education across borders will affect the nature and priority given to academic, social and cultural purposes of non-profit international education activities (Altbach and Knight 2007).”