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Internationalisation of Higher Education: On Whose Terms?

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This chapter explores key challenges and impacts of an inter-institutional collaboration to pursue the internationalisation of higher education (HE) through a student exchange programme at a university college in Norway, focusing on its implementation at the Department of Vocational Teacher Education (DVTE), at the Norwegian Higher Education institution (HEI) scrutinised in the research.

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Carm, E., Horntvedt, T. (2017). Internationalisation of Higher Education: On Whose Terms?. In: Dent, S., Lane, L., Strike, T. (eds) Collaboration, Communities and Competition. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-122-3_2

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