Higher education in a changing environment

Internationalisation of higher education, once a marginal concern, has moved centre-stage. It has become „mainstreamed“ and is regarded as part and parcel of „higher education policy“. What was earlier called education policy has become subject to international debate and decision-making and thus of „internationalisation“. As a result, the activities referred to under the term „internationalisation“ have become widened. There are two types of internationalisation. „Old internationalisation“ concerns the mobility of students and scholars. „New internationalisa-tion“ deals with joint international efforts related to structural and regulatory issues of higher education systems, for example quality assuran-ce, lifelong learning and online education. The present volume traces this development. The papers in this book were first presented at the 10-year anniversary conference of the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) in Gent/Belgium in 2003. All authors are internationally-renonowned specialists in their field.