Global: Three Nations Tops in Collaboration

From Yojana Sharma in University World News

With more than three million students studying outside their own countries, and rising, universities and governments are keen to know what kind of environment increases the inflow and outflow of students, and how countries compare in encouraging collaboration overseas.

A new index launched at the Going Global conference attempts to quantify how open to different ways of international collaboration a country’s higher education system is.

Developed by the British Council with the Economist Intelligence Unit, the index tracked policies in 11 countries to quantify international collaboration, overseas branch campuses, joint academic programmes, publications and patents, academic and student mobility, visa policies, quality, access and recognition of foreign degrees.

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