Internationalisation and higher education: the case study of the University of Aveiro

• Autor(a) principal: Nogueira, Rosa Isabel de Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/7947
• topic: Ensino superior; Gestão organizacional - Internacionalização; Eficácia das organizações; Competitividade

Education is the most successful strategy for a country’s growth and development. It is widely agreed that it is the most effective means that society possesses for dealing with the challenges of the future. Nevertheless, higher education has been confronted and needs, therefore, to redefine its historic role as the centre of universal knowledge and understanding. This master thesis analyses the importance of internationalisation on higher education institutions and enable us to better understand how they are changing as a consequence of internationalisation. Using the University of Aveiro as a case study, we will be studying what is internationalisation in a higher education context and which rationales, approaches and activities are associated with the internationalisation process of an institution. Furthermore, the appropriateness of theories of internationalisation specifically developed for business contexts will be assayed in higher education contexts.