Mihaylo Milovanovitch OECD Directorate for Education LACHEC 2011 Cali, Colombia

1. Managing
internationalisation:
institutional co-operation
Mihaylo Milovanovitch
OECD Directorate for Education
LACHEC 2011
Cali, Colombia

2. 34 OECD Members
Australia (1971) Hungary (1996) Poland (1996)
Austria (1961) Iceland (1961) Portugal (1961)
Belgium (1961) Ireland (1961) Slovak Republic (2000)
Canada (1961) Israel (2010) Slovenia (2010)
Chile (2010) Italy (1961) Spain (1961)
Czech Republic (1995) Japan (1964) Sweden (1961)
Denmark (1961) Korea (1996) Switzerland (1961)
Estonia (2010) Luxemburg (1961) Turkey (1961)
Finland (1969) Mexico (1994) United Kingdom (1961)
France (1961) Netherlands (1961) United States of America (1961)
Germany (1961) New Zealand (1973)
Greece (1961) Norway (1961)
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3. OECD Directorate for Education
Indicators
and Analysis
Centre for Management
Educational of Higher
Research and Education
Innovation OECD
Directorate
for
Education
(EDU)
Programme
for Education &
Cooperation Training
with Non- Policy
members
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4. Projected Tertiary Enrolments in 2025 under Recent
Trends (2005=100)
175
170
150 145
139 140
133
130 125 127 127 127 128 128
120 120
116
113 114 115 116
110
110
100 101
90 93 94
89 91
85
70
69
63
50
OECD (2008): Higher Education 2030, Vol. 1 Demography
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5. Long-term growth in the number of students
enrolled outside their country of citizenship
Growth in internationalisation of tertiary education (1975-2008, in millions)
Source: Education at a Glance 2010
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6. The composition of the global talent pool has changed…
Countries’ share in the population with tertiary education, for 25-34 and 55-64 year-old age
groups, percentage (2009)
25-34-year-old population
55-64-year-old population
About 39 million people About 81 million people
who attained tertiary level who attained tertiary level

7. …and will continue to change…
Share of new entrants into tertiary education in 2009 (all OECD and G20 countries)
Other China, 36.6%
countries, 4.8%
Netherlands, 0.
5%
Chile, 1.3% Other
Australia, 1.3% Portugal 0.5%
Czech Republic 0.4%
Italy, 1.4% Israel 0.4%
Spain, 1.6% Sweden 0.4%
Poland, 2.1% Belgium 0.4%
Hungary 0.4%
Germany, 2.5% United Austria 0.4%
States, 12.9% New Zealand 0.3%
Argentina, 2.7
% Switzerland 0.3%
Korea, 3.1% Slovak Republic 0.3%
Mexico, 3.1% Denmark 0.2%
Russian
Norway 0.2%
Federation, 10.
United 0% Ireland 0.2%
Kingdom, 3.3% Indonesia, 4.9 Finland 0.2%
Turkey, 3.7% Japan, 4.2%
% Slovenia 0.1%
Estonia 0.1%
Iceland 0.0%

8. Changing demands for skills
Preparing future professionals and citizens with the right skills
 Increasing international convergence in skills demand
 ‘21st century skills’
Creativity and innovation, Critical thinking, Problem
solving, Communication, Collaboration, Information fluency, Technological
literacy
Changing skill demand with the advent of the knowledge economy
Economy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (US)
Routine manual
65 Accelerating trend
since 1990s
60 Nonroutine manual
55
Routine cognitive
50
45 Nonroutine analytic
40 8
1960 1970 1980 1990 2002 Nonroutine interactive
Levy and Murnane

9. An important fact of higher education life
• Internationalisation is a fact, not
an option
• Hence, the main question now is:
What strategies for
managing
internationalisation?
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10. Internationalisation impact: possible areas
A sample of categories of indicators on internationalisation (IMPI 2010)
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11. Internationalisation impact:
selection of key areas
• Quality
• Relevance of education
• Quality assurance systems
• Equity
• Access to education
• Access to mobility
• Domestic demand and brain drain
• Asymmetric mobility
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12. Distribution of foreign students in tertiary education, by
country of destination (2009)
Other non-OECD
countries 15.7
Other OECD
United States
countries 6.0
18.0
Sweden 1.1
Netherlands 1.2
Belgium 1.3 United Kingdom
Switzerland 1.3 9.9
Korea 1.4
Austria 1.6
Australia 7.0
South Africa 1.7
China 1.7
Germany 7.0
Italy 1.8
New Zealand 1.9
France 6.8
Spain 2.3
Canada 5.2
Japan 3.6 Russian
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Percentage of foreign tertiary students (reported to the OECD) Federation 3.7
who are enrolled in each country of destination

13. Distribution of foreign students in tertiary education, by
country of origin (2009)
China, 16.5
India, 6.2
Korea, 3.8
Other non-OECD
Germany, 2.9
non-G20
countries, 46.0
France, 1.6
United
States, 1.6
Russian
Federation, 1.6
Turkey, 1.4
Other non-OECD
G20 Canada, 1.4
countries, 1.3
Other OECD Japan, 1.4
countries, 9.8 Italy, 1.3
Poland, 1.0 Saudi Indonesia, 1.1
Arabia, 1.0

14. Percentage of international students changing status and
staying on in selected OECD countries, 2008 or 2009
Percentage of students who have changed their status (whether for work, family or other reasons) among
students who have not renewed their permits
%
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Germany
Norway
Canada
Austria
Australia
France
Japan
Ireland
Netherlands
Spain
United Kingdom
Finland
Czech Republic
New Zealand

15. From impact to policy:
balancing key options (institutional level)
LOCAL CHAMPION Institutional mission McUNIVERSITY
Relevance/
LOCAL/REGIONAL quality of outcomes GLOBAL
Programme/
ENRICH course design EXPORT
Mihaylo Milovanovitch, OECD
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16. From impact to policy:
balancing key options (public policy level)
Academic/
ATTRACT student mobility SEND
RESTRICTIVE Accreditation policy PROACTIVE
System design CONVERGENCE/
NATIONALISATION RECOGNITION
Mihaylo Milovanovitch, OECD
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17. Managing internationalisation through
institutional co-operation
• Addressing the challenge to quality
– Regional co-operation
– Intra-institutional co-ordination
– Internationalisation of QA
• Addressing the challenge to equity
– Credit transfer and convergence of systems for
0ptimising mobility
• Attracting talent back
– Diaspora mobilisation
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18. Managing internationalisation through
institutional co-operation: examples
• Bologna Process
• Managing internationalisation: a new project
by the OECD’s Institutional Management of
Higher Education programme (IMHE).
• AHELO – Assessment of Higher Education
Learning Outcomes
• CONAHEC
• International Network of Quality Assurance
Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE)
• Partnerships for the Future - Portugal
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19. Suggestions for reading
• Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society (OECD 2008)
• Brandenburg/de Witt (2011), The end of
Internationalistation, International Higher Education, No.
62/2011
• Marijk van der Wende, 2010, Quality Assurance in Higher
Education and the Link to Internationalisation, CHEPS 2010,
Netherlands
• Indicator Projects on Internationalisation: Approaches,
Methods and Findings - A report in the context of the
European project “Indicators for Mapping & Profiling
Internationalisation” (IMPI)
• www.oecd.org/edu/ahelo
• www.oecd.org/edu/imhe
• conahec.org 19

20. Thank you
mihaylo.milovanovitch@oecd.org
www.oecd.org/edu/nme