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July 2021 June 2021, the birthday of my book ‘Internationalising Programmes in Higher Education: An Educational Development Perspective’ marked both and end and a new beginning. The beginning refers to opportunities for sharing the rich experiences and insights pertaining to higher education internationalisation laid down in...
May 2021Intercultural competence sometimes is used as a buzzword associated with higher education internationalisation, without understanding exactly, what it is universities are trying to achieve. In this conversation with Elspeth Jones, first we talked about the need to delineate intercultural competence in its specific elements...
17 September 2019 Students are at the core of our internationalisation efforts in HE. Whether we are infusing international, intercultural or global dimensions in our study programmes, or brainstorm on how to benefit all students, we state the focus is in preparing them for our future...
On June 13th the EU funded project Educational Quality for inclusive international Programmes (EQUiiP) held its final conference at the University of Freiburg in Germany. The aim of EQUiiP was to bridge the gap between educational development and higher education internationalisation. An international perspective on...
What may seem a daunting idea to many for all the right reasons, turned into an enlightening experience for me. Determined to succeed, in preparation of the 103th International Four Day Marches, Nijmegen July 16-19, 2019, I covered 745 kilometres, climbed 843 floors, set over 1.072.919.000 steps. The idea...