Suzy Harris

School of Education, University of Sheffield

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Volume 40 Issue 2 Page 346-357, April 2008

To cite this article: Suzy Harris (2008) Internationalising the University. Educational Philosophy and Theory 40 (2) , 346–357.

Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2008

Abstract
‘International’ and ‘internationalisation’ are two terms frequently used today in association
with the university. In this paper I consider the way in which the notion of internationalisation
connects to the contemporary university, which I have termed ‘Neo-liberal’.
I begin by outlining the main characteristics of the contemporary university and then discuss
some of the problems that arise in relation to the notion of internationalisation; it is strongly
associated with an economic rather than a cultural imperative. Alternatives to the Neoliberal
model of the university are then considered and rejected. In the final section of the
paper I suggest a different interpretation of internationalisation, one that is cultural rather
than economic because such an internationalisation degenerates into instrumentalism and
robs higher education of what should be essential to it.

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