Internationalization trends and their impact on higher education

Keywords: higher education, globalization and internationalization, Bologna process, student mobility, quality of training of professionals

Abstract

The article contains the latest data on the state and trends of higher education in European educational and scientific area and in the world in the context of internationalization. The fact of acceleration of quantitative and qualitative development of higher levels of education – training of masters and young researchers of PhD-level in the leading European countries – Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Finland and several others is proved. The intensification of student mobility and the impact of this phenomenon on improving the quality of activities of the entire higher education have been studied. Quantitative data on student flows within the European Higher Education Area are presented, positive and negative phenomena in the phenomenon of “mobility” for the youth of Ukraine are noted. The need to support those technologies that will determine the world economy over the next 10-15 years has been stated and in which Ukraine is witnessing the first successes.

Author Biography

Mariia Debych, Institute of Higher Education, National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine

Doctor of Science in Pedagogy, associate professor, principal research fellow, department of quality assurance of higher education 

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Published
2023-11-27
How to Cite
Debych, M. (2023). Internationalization trends and their impact on higher education. IDEAS. PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL. SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC ISSUES, (1(21)-2(22), 40-52. https://doi.org/10.34017/1313-9703-2023-1(21)-2(22)-40-52
Section
Philosophy of Education