For almost 40 years now, my own organization, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), has been supporting development research in developing countries. So you are addressing, in your own discussions, questions that go to the core of IDRC’s founding purpose and parliamentary mandate.
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International education is becoming an increasingly competitive sector within the field of postsecondary education. Tomorrow’s leaders will be expected to speak multiple languages, work in foreign countries, and bridge cultural differences to achieve social, economic and political objectives. Governments around the world are responding to this trend by intensifying the internationalization of their higher education systems — both attracting a greater number of international students and ensuring their citizens are able to pursue studies beyond national boundaries. In our globalized world, the demand for international education and experience continues to grow rapidly.
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An Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) statement on internationalization and Canadian universities released in 1995 signalled the university community’s commitment to internationalization as “a necessary and vital, and deliberate transformation of how we teach and learn and it is essential to the future quality of higher education in Canada, indeed to the future of Canada.”