Le développement international et les relations entre les différents pays sont-ils profitables uniquement aux institutions des pays les plus riches?
“If we have an institution to institution partnership we will take care of issues like our policies, the approach to research subjects, the agenda, the intellectual property rights on both sides. This needs an institutional internationalisation strategy. When there is an institutional weakness on one side and a lack of an internationalisation strategy, this partner will be vulnerable to the power of the stronger one.”
Ce texte soulève la problématique des inégalités en éducation supérieure avec l’arrivée des économies émergentes:
“Two factors which put Brazil at a disadvantage are the language, because Brazilians do not speak English and all of their neighbours speak Spanish; and the economy because the currency has plummeted against the euro and dollar.“
Ainsi, si certains étudiants poursuivent leurs études à l’étranger, les opportunités de transferts des connaissances sont moindres comme l’indique un étudiant brésilien :
“Another potential risk of internationalisation is brain drain caused by a lack of the right opportunities for students who have finished their degrees. For instance, if they want to develop and take products to market they may realise the environment for doing that in Brazil is not as well supported as abroad.
“Some students who find it difficult to sell one patent or make a product for market might have been involved in projects with international labs and know how to go to an accelerator in Boston or Texas, and we may be losing many possibilities to have local companies,” Vilela said.”
Bref, ces enjeux font actuellement l’objet d’un colloque international, Going Global 2016, à l’initiative du British Council du Royaume-Uni. L’événement se tient par ailleurs en Afrique du Sud, afin de marquer la volonté de développer mondialement la collaboration en éducation.
Comme l’a dit le Ministre pour le Bureau du Cabinet britannique, Matthew Hancock, dans son discours inaugural : « So let’s work together and make it happen. »
Source : Brendan O’Malley. Can internationalisation be a negative force?, University World News, 5 mars 2016.
