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Introduction to Joint Degrees and the Debates, Tensions and Influences in International Higher Education

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This chapter introduces the broad debates around the internationalisation of higher education and explores the need to focus on the individual experience, providing a framework for the monograph, which is grounded in the analysis of the micro level of internationalisation but which also gives some attention to the meso and macro levels. The conceptual approach is outlined and the chapter considers a construct of the mutuality of the experience: that the student experience of internationalisation informs the direction and flows of internationalisation for teaching staff and institutions and ultimately at governmental level, as well as the converse being also true for students. The chapter sets the scene for the following chapters and allows us to understand the perspectives of the individual actors involved in the process of the internationalisation of higher education.

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    The Latin is used here not just to evoke notions of the wandering scholar, peregrinatio academica (Ridder-Simmons 1992), on which the Erasmus programme is based but also the first European university teaching qualification was referred to as licentia ubique docendi (Reugg 1992).

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    The European Commission first coined the phrase Europe of Knowledge as early as 1997. ‘Real wealth creation will henceforth be linked to the production and dissemination of knowledge and will depend first and foremost on our efforts in the field of research, education and training and on our capacity to promote innovation. This is why we must fashion a veritable “Europe of knowledge”’ (CEC 1997). This was further developed under the Lisbon Agenda in 2000.

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Bamford, J.K. (2020). Introduction to Joint Degrees and the Debates, Tensions and Influences in International Higher Education. In: International Joint Double Degrees and International Transitions in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48622-8_1

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