Will Academics Drive or Obstruct the Slovenian Government’s Internationalisation Agenda for Higher Education?
The present article is concerned with the question of how conducive the academic culture and climate in Slovenian higher education institutions are to internationalisation. Our underlying assumption is that academic staff represent either an important driving force or an obstacle to the implementati...
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| description | The present article is concerned with the question of how conducive the academic culture and climate in Slovenian higher education institutions are to internationalisation. Our underlying assumption is that academic staff represent either an important driving force or an obstacle to the implementation of internationalisation policies formulated at the national level and diffused into institutional practices. Specifically, we investigate whether the present academic attitudes and behaviours are in line with the internationalisation aims and objectives stated in the National Higher Education Programme 2011–2020. Our findings point to generally favourable attitudes of academics towards internationalisation. We also find that academics’ own priorities regarding internationalisation tend to be higher than the perceived priorities of their respective institutions. At the same time, however, the preferences of academics regarding the various activities associated with the “internationalisation of study at home”, especially conducting courses in foreign languages, are lower and highly divergent, and might therefore obstruct the government’s agenda in this regard. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b596e6beec4848bcb3a7f1d8a20841fb2025-08-20T02:15:34ZengUniversity of LjubljanaCenter for Educational Policy Studies Journal1855-97192232-26472014-06-0142Will Academics Drive or Obstruct the Slovenian Government’s Internationalisation Agenda for Higher Education?Alenka FlanderManja KlemThe present article is concerned with the question of how conducive the academic culture and climate in Slovenian higher education institutions are to internationalisation. Our underlying assumption is that academic staff represent either an important driving force or an obstacle to the implementation of internationalisation policies formulated at the national level and diffused into institutional practices. Specifically, we investigate whether the present academic attitudes and behaviours are in line with the internationalisation aims and objectives stated in the National Higher Education Programme 2011–2020. Our findings point to generally favourable attitudes of academics towards internationalisation. We also find that academics’ own priorities regarding internationalisation tend to be higher than the perceived priorities of their respective institutions. At the same time, however, the preferences of academics regarding the various activities associated with the “internationalisation of study at home”, especially conducting courses in foreign languages, are lower and highly divergent, and might therefore obstruct the government’s agenda in this regard.https://ojs.cepsj.si/index.php/cepsj/article/view/202the academic professionacademic culturehigher education reformssloveniainternationalisationinternational cooperation |
| spellingShingle | Alenka Flander Manja Klem Will Academics Drive or Obstruct the Slovenian Government’s Internationalisation Agenda for Higher Education? Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal the academic profession academic culture higher education reforms slovenia internationalisation international cooperation |
| title | Will Academics Drive or Obstruct the Slovenian Government’s Internationalisation Agenda for Higher Education? |
| title_full | Will Academics Drive or Obstruct the Slovenian Government’s Internationalisation Agenda for Higher Education? |
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| title_short | Will Academics Drive or Obstruct the Slovenian Government’s Internationalisation Agenda for Higher Education? |
| title_sort | will academics drive or obstruct the slovenian government s internationalisation agenda for higher education |
| topic | the academic profession academic culture higher education reforms slovenia internationalisation international cooperation |
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