The idea that career competencies are required to achieve corporate competitiveness is an integral part of the reference on globalization. As things present, it is no easy task to keep up with the rapidly growing vocabulary which captures the whole mass of skills that prepare a student to be part of the global workforce. In the discourse on globalization, the notion that competitiveness is critical to organizational sustainability has proved much the case. In consequence, it falls to higher education institutions to be responsive to those skills which constitute work-preparedness-and the way forward is through internationalization of higher education. The staggering pace at which trans-national corporations are moving up the global value chain implies that higher education institutions need to move inwards from peripheral to core internationalization. In other words, only such internationalization will serve as results in shift towards substantive skill formation. The study argues that internationalization of higher education contributes imperatively to the attainment of global career-readiness competencies; further, it discusses the myriad ways in which this comes about. The paper delves into the research concern largely through critical synthesis of published literature.
Higher education systems in India and China are boxed into rivalry as a matter of course: They have the two largest systems and are the largest "exporters" of international students. Both countries have made higher education an item of precedence, guided by planned shift towards knowledge economy. Then again, while China has held itself to exacting standards in the business of policy, India has yet to mature past unavailing attempts, which lead the system to go through the motions of attending to the most skeletal of the demands, and no more. China's ascent is remarkable in and of itself, without referencing scorecard keeping against India. More to the point, China's "long fought and hard won" battle proves to us that the centre-periphery paradigm in international education is not a foregone conclusion.
A long standing debate in India relates to the extent to which the Indian Government be duly allowed to intervene in the supervision of the higher education institutions. Increasingly, it is being suggested that the "invisible hand of the market" be allowed to modulate the higher education system through the free play of the rising and dipping arms of the scale of demand and supply. The judgement of quality of education rests with the student, as much as it does with other entities. It is being stressed that student perceptions and judgement is an important, albeit neglected, marker of institutional quality. Similarly, it is also being put forth the world over that the boundaries between public and private universities are superfluous and must be relegated to the background. It is about time that the "licence Raj" be made to give way to regulatory methods that allow for authentic quality assurance.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.