Barriers to Establishing Partnerships in terms of Internationalization of Higher Education: The example of Turkey - UK case

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2024-06-01

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Erdoğan, Armağan
Bulut Şahin, Betül

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Internationalization has become an increasingly important global target and process for the higher education sector. Higher education stakeholders aim to enlarge their benefits from this phenomenon, and policies and practices usually address the issue of quantity and visible tools such as numbers on student mobility. The growing interest in internationalization highlighted the importance of cooperation between countries at the national level. This study examined models, relationship, and ties between higher education institutions (HEIs) in Türkiye and the UK, focusing on the barriers to an effective partnership. Within the scope of the study, qualitative research methods were used to conduct semi-structured interviews with national policymakers and decision-makers in both countries, senior representatives of HEIs, and several focus groups with different groups of academics in the UK and Türkiye. In this article, we aim to present the primary analysis gathered from the intensive research conducted in 2021. This article identified the main challenges that have slowed the development of relations between the two countries. According to the results, the main barriers to partnerships are the structural and attitudinal barriers between the HEIs of the two countries. Recommendations for policy reform from the extensive research are shared at the end of the article.

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Internationalization of higher education, Türkiye, the UK, international partnerships in higher education, challenges

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https://doi.org/10.55993/hegp.1415319
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111232

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Department of Educational Sciences, Article