Internationalization of Universities as Internationalization of Bildung

• An internal audit of the current status of university internationalization.
Any foreign activity of the university system has to be audited in regard to
the learning process in the three core-correlations. Internal auditing leads
to re-organization measures of the administration-to-student and admin-
istration-to-lecturer relationships in such a way that the learning outcome
is enhanced.

• An external audit of contacts which implies the assessment of exchange
programs and research activities with foreign partner universities. The
main objective for this review of foreign activities is to prove the system
readiness of foreign partners in regard to individual learning when they
send out home-based students or researchers.

Figure 3: Strategy of University Internationalization

The theoretical system approach provides an optimal basis for the internal as well
as the external auditing. The internal audit could start with a simple listing of
internationally related activities of the university. Subsequently every activity
should be analyzed as to its correlation with the learning process of students, lec-
turers, or researchers. The individual’s learning outcome in turn is connected to
the interaction level within the three core interrelationships. The purpose of the
audit is to record the degree of interactions and to organize the learning environ-
ment to improve the impact of international activities on the individual’s learning.

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