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The Contours of Internationalization in Kenya’s Universities: The Challenges of Quality and Relevance

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In this chapter, I explore internationalization of higher education in Kenya paying close attention to the context in which it has been framed from the colonial era to the contemporary period. In the analysis, I demonstrate the manifest tension between the desire by universities to espouse global values and generate revenue as measures of success versus the need for the institutions to demonstrate local relevance through the infusion of African epistemologies even as they clamor for global ranking through internationalization. The analysis begins with the framing of higher education internationalization followed by the analysis of internationalization in the colonial, immediate post-independence, and the contemporary periods.

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Munene, I.I. (2022). The Contours of Internationalization in Kenya’s Universities: The Challenges of Quality and Relevance. In: Glass, C.R., Bista, K. (eds) Reimagining Mobility in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93865-9_13

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