MEASURING INTERNATIONALISATION

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2 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL POLICY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OFFICE MEASURING INTERNATIONALISATION SGroup Liaison Officers Meeting 2017

3 WHAT TO MEASURE: FACTS & FIGURES? 3

4 WHAT DO WE WANT TO MEASURE? Facts & figures How many exchange students Cooperation with a specific country 4

5 OUTGOING EXCHANGE STUDENTS IAESTE Erasmus+ credit mobility outside Europe Asem Duo Transition Fellowship Programme Swiss-European Mobility Programme Individual Contacts between Professors VLIR-UOS Erasmus Mundus Joint Projects (action 2) Generieke beurzen Erasmus Belgica Own resources Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (action 1) Other Scholarship Ghent University bilateral agreement Erasmus

6 INCOMING EXCHANGE STUDENTS Swiss-European Mobility Programme Erasmus+ credit mobility outside Europe Asem Duo Science without borders Scholarship from home institution Own resources IAESTE Other Scholarship Ghent University bilateral agreement Erasmus Mundus Joint Projects (action 2) Erasmus Belgica Individual Contacts between Professors Erasmus

7 EXCHANGE BALANCE Outgoing students Incoming students

8 MOBILE GRADUATES 8

9 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN 9

10 COOPERATION WITH SPECIFIC COUNTRY 250 #exchange students Incoming Outgoing Faculty Totals Bachelor Master PhD Totals Arts and Philosophy Law Sciences Medicine and Health Sciences Engineering and Architecture Economics and Business Administration Veterinary Medicine 9 6 Psychology and Educational Sciences 4 4 Bioscience Engineering Pharmaceutical Sciences 3 3 Political and Social Sciences 5 5 Faculty Incoming Outgoing Totals Arts and Philosophy Bioscience Engineering 10 7 Economics and Business Administration Engineering and Architecture Law 8 9 Medicine and Health Sciences Pharmaceutical Sciences 4 2 Political and Social Sciences 13 6 Psychology and Educational Sciences 19 7 Sciences 9 1 Veterinary Medicine

11 COOPERATION WITH SPECIFIC COUNTRY 11

12 WHAT TO MEASURE: QUALITY OF PARTNERSHIPS 12

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14 PROBLEM AREA The number of partners The decentralised context Academic freedom mobile graduates = credits abroad = courses How do we assure quality of courses offered at partner institutions? 14

15 OUTLINE OF AN ANSWER Structurally analyse our partners Use data that we (all) have available Share information with our partners Improve both sides of the cooperation PDCA 15

16 EUROPEAN PROJECT Assessing quality of partnerships amongst Higher Education Institutions Support institutions wanting to use equatic Data gathering and reusability Research on existing practices Peer assessment toolbox Training Policy recommendations Upscale of equatic prototype 16

17 THE PROTOTYPE available comparable easy to read data scores information 17

18 QUALITY IN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Quality of the partners involved Quality of international cooperation Quality of the information exchange Impact of the cooperation 18

19 AVAILABLE DATA Quality of partners Quality of information exchange Impact of the cooperation 19

20 COMPARABLE SCORES Parameters for choice of indicators -> limited number! Relevance Availability Measurability Unique source of information No Matthew Effect? From data to indicator scores 20

21 COMPARABLE SCORES 21

22 EASY TO READ INFORMATION Reports & visualisation For broad public Extra background Easy to read & interpret 22

23 EASY TO READ INFORMATION 23

24 EASY TO READ INFORMATION 24

25 PEER ASSESSMENT Based on mutual data input Generate reports on quality of international partners Reports on your own quality as perceived by your partners In order to improve the quality on both sides of the cooperation 25

26 WHAT TO MEASURE: INTERNATIONALISATION IN QUALITY ASSURANCE 26

27 INTERNATIONALISATION AS QUALITY INDICATOR 27

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29 INSTITUTION REVIEW Hard quality indicators Define courses where international and intercultural competences are incorporated Faculty participation in international cooperation & procedures to guarantee quality (cfr. equatic) Window of opportunity in curriculum 29

30 INSTITUTION REVIEW Institution wide quality indicators 25% of all graduates have a study abroad experience 100% of all study programmes have incorporated international and intercultural competences in the programme competences Faculty/programme specific quality indicators Participation in staff mobility Integration of international elements in education 30

31 AREA S STILL TO BE EXPLORED 31

32 BEYOND THE OBVIOUS Measuring positive(?) effects of mobility experience Erasmus impact study 32

33 BEYOND THE OBVIOUS Measuring positive(?) effects of mobility experience Erasmus impact study Assessment of international and intercultural competencies of mobile students 33

34 DATA CAPABILITY 34

35 HESA RESEARH HE data collections Duplication in data collections Un-coordinated responses to request for data Lack of coherence in published info Data is kept in silos Data as a burdon 35

36 HESA RESEARH Data standards Standard = Specification x Adoption Why standards are difficult? Different realities Different understanding of the same reality Different language to describe realities Data to support different processes and functions 36

37 CONCLUSIONS 37

38 DATA CLEANING 38

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40 STANDARDISATION A standard is only a standard if it is used Standardisation of institutions is a huge challenge 40

41 STANDARDISATION For common understanding E.g. outgoing exchange student Summer school Group excursion What is a course? What is an agreement? 41

42 CONTEXT IS VITAL 42

43 Paul Leys Policy Advisor INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OFFICE E <paul.leys@ugent.be T Ghent Ghent University