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de Wit, Hans; Altbach, Philip G. – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2021
Internationalization as a concept and strategic agenda is a relatively new, broad, and varied phenomenon in tertiary education. During the past half-century, internationalization has evolved from a marginal activity to a key aspect of the reform agenda. This analysis addresses the following points: What are the historical developments of…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Futures (of Society)
Altbach, Philip G.; Reisberg, Liz – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
The most significant trend in global higher education since the second World War has been massification, the dramatic increases in enrollments around the world. While massification has meant greater access and opportunity, expanded enrollments have strained education budgets and existing infrastructure, outpaced the preparation of academic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Futures (of Society), Private Sector
Altbach, Philip G.; Reisberg, Liz; Rumbley, Laura E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
A global revolution has been taking place in higher education during the past half-century. In the educators' view, four fundamental and interrelated forces have impelled the current academic revolution: the "massification" of higher education, globalization, the advent of the knowledge society and the importance of research universities…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Human Capital, Privatization
Altbach, Philip G. – Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, 2005
New England is internationally recognized as a center of educational excellence, attracting "the best and brightest" from across the United States and around the world since higher education became an international enterprise at the end of the 19th century with the rise of research universities. Now, in the early 21st century, as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Higher Education, Research Universities, Institutions
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Altbach, Philip G. – Change, 2004
At present, approximately 2 million students worldwide study outside of their home countries, a number that a recent report suggests will increase to 8 million by 2025. Many nations have become interested in student flow across borders in the past couple of decades for a number of reasons. Industrialized countries are recognizing the need to…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Foreign Students