International Collaboration

Towards Strategic Policy Planning on Higher Education for the Global Age

Abstract

　 A global vision is quite important. How well does the higher education system embrace a global view? The best kind of collaboration obviously promises rewards far beyond the ability of single researcher, student, institution and etc. working in isolation. Collaboration is a necessary means to overcoming the tendency towards increased specialization and of addressing problems that cross national boundaries.

　 In fact, the number of students studying outside their home country has risen and will continue to rise, though the students are not eventually distributed across countries in terms of either their destinations.

　 Researcher mobility has also risen rapidly. While it has been a recent trend, there is an evidence that international collaboration in research, especially strategic one with relation to the national policy has substantially increased, i.e. Singapore, Korea, China, Japan and etc.

　 It is that Reich（1991）stated. “We are living through a transformation that will rearrange the politics and economics of the coming century. There will be no national products or technologies, no national corporations, no national industries. There will no longer be national economies as we have come to understand that concept. All that will remain rooted within national borders are the people who comprise a nation.”

　 Nowadays, the international collaboration on higher education has become a part of the national policy which is significant for sustaining in the global community.