International Open Seminar
The Changing Internationalization of Higher Education in the New Contexts
新しい環境における変化する高等教育の国際化

13:00~15:30, Thursday, 15 December 2022 (JST)Face-to-Face and Online

Project team at Research Institute for Higher Education

Hiroshima University
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The Changing Internationalization of Higher Education in the New Contexts
新しい環境における変化する高等教育の国際化

Venue
Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University
Working language
EnglishFree Registration
https://rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/2022/11/12-15-seminar-en/ (English site)
https://rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/2022/11/12-15-seminar/ (Japanese site)
New contexts, including the changing geopolitics, the COVID-19 pandemic, and theUkraine-Russia war and others, have brought about considerable changes tointernationalization of higher education worldwide. These changes are evident andmultiple. They are concerned not only with the redefinition of and reconsideration into
internationalization of higher education, but also with reforms on a wide variety ofaspects or activities of internationalization of higher education. Drawing on twopresentations, the aim of this international open seminar is to investigate and discuss
what new changes have occurred in specific and main aspects and activities ofinternationalization of higher education at the global, regional, national levels, and what
key factors have caused these changes, and what implications can be drawn from thesechanges from the comparative perspective.
We welcome all speakers, discussant, and participants to discuss these issues and movethe field forward.

PROGRAM
12:50~13:00 Online registration
MC: Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Tohoku University, Japan
13:00~13:10 Opening remarks
Futao Huang, Hiroshima University, Japan2

13:10~13:50 Presentation 1
Asian Academics in Australian Universities: Progress, Policies andProspects
オーストラリアの大学におけるアジア出身の教員－進展、政策と展望－

Anthony Welch, the University of Sydney, Australia
13:50~14:10 Q & A
14:10~14:50 Presentation 2
Internationalisation evolving: global engagement, sustainability andacademic staff mobility
国際化の発展－グローバル・エンゲージメント、持続可能性と大学教員の流動
Tatiana Fumasoli, University College London, the UK
14:50~15:10 Q & A
15:10~15:25 DiscussantLibing Wang, UNESCO Bangkok, Thailand
15:25~15:30 Closing remarks
Tsukasa Daizen, Hiroshima University, JapanPRESENTATION DETAILS
Presentation 1: Asian Academics in Australia Universities: Progress, Policies andProspects
Anthony Welch
As While the Australian university system was originally founded on the British model,
with its earliest professors largely also drawn from the UK, it is now one of the moreinternational systems worldwide. Lingering tensions between its geography and history
are still evident, but, as the only English-language system of its size in the region,3

surrounded by Asia Pacific neighbours, it is no surprise that Asian academics now
comprise around 15 per cent of the total, much the same as their proportion of the total
Australian population.
This has undoubtedly enriched the higher education system, strengthened people-topeople links with the region, boosted its appeal to students from the region, and added
to the store and depth of knowledge and expertise about Australia’s Asian neighbours.
At the same time, however, the process has not been entirely unproblematic. The
growth of Asian academics within the system is outlined, related issues analyzed, andfuture prospects assessed
Presentation 2: Internationalisation evolving: global engagement, sustainability
and academic staff mobility
Tatiana Fumasoli
This Global engagement can be considered a key trend in higher education, a transition
from more traditional practices of internationalisation to transformational change inuniversity core activities. This presentation conceptualises global engagement asinstitutional redesign to impact society at local, national and global levels. As such,global engagement entails strategic organisational capacity to plan, carry out
organisational development and allocate resources effectively. The impact on theinternational mobility of academic staff is discussed as one of the main implications of
this emerging operational model in higher education.

DETAILS of SPEAKERS, CHAITPERSON & DISCUSSANT
Anthony Welch is Professor of Education, University of Sydney. His numerous
publications address education reforms, principally within Australia, and the AsiaPacific, and mainly on Higher Education. An advisor to state, national and international
agencies, governments, institutions and foundations in Australia, Europe, East, Central,and Southeast Asia and the USA., his project experience is largely in international
higher education. His work appears in numerous languages, both European and Asian,and he has been Visiting Professor in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Malaysia,Turkey and Hong Kong.

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Tatiana Fumasoli is Professor of Higher Education Studies at UCL’s Faculty ofEducation and Society, University College London, where she is the director of theUCL Centre for Higher Education Studies. Her research interests lie at the intersection
between management studies, organisation theory and sociology of professions andexpertise. Tatiana has led several international projects focusing on global governance,
strategic management and the academic profession. Her current projects investigate newpractices of internationalisation, crisis management, and networks of innovation inteaching and learning. She is the editor-in-chief of Higher Education Quarterly, ajournal of SRHE Society for Research into Higher Education.
Libing Wang is currently Chief of the Section for Educational Innovation and Skills
Development (EISD) at UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education,Bangkok, Thailand. He leads UNESCO Bangkok's work across five areas: highereducation, teacher education, TVET, lifelong learning, and research and foresight in
Asia-Pacific. Before joining UNESCO in 2012, he was a Professor of Comparative
Education at Zhejiang University, China. Mr. Wang received his Ph.D. degree in theearly 1990s. During the same decade, he was a visiting fellow at the University ofSussex and the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He has published widelyin comparative education, higher education policy, and teacher education.
Akiyoshi Yonezawa is Professor and Vice-Director of International Strategy Office,and a Special Advisor for the President, at Tohoku University. With a background insociology, he conducts research on comparative higher education policy – especially
focusing on world-class universities, internationalization and public-privaterelationships in higher education. He established his expertise in higher education
policy and management though working experience at Nagoya University, OECD,Hiroshima University and the University of Tokyo. He is a board member at Japan
Association for Higher Education Research and at Japan Comparative Education
Society, and a national delegation of the Group of National Experts on Higher
Education for OECD, and also actively contributing international research publication,e.g., as an editorial advisory board member of Higher Education and International
Higher Education.
Futao Huang is Professor at the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima
University, Japan. Before he came to Japan in 1999, he taught and conducted researchin several Chinese universities. His research interests include internationalization of5

higher education, the academic profession, and higher education in East Asia. He has
published widely in Chinese, English and Japanese languages.
Tsukasa Daizen is Vice Director and Professor in the Research Institute for Higher
Education, Hiroshima University, Japan. His specialty is sociology of education,especially focusing on the academic profession, academic productivity and faculty
development. His recent publications include ‘The Internationalization of Educationaland Research Activities of Japanese University Academic Staff’ (chapter, RIHE, 2015);
Academic Profession's Career and Research Productivity (chapter, RIHE, 2015);
Education and Research Activities of the Academic Profession in Japan (chapter, RIHE,2013); Changes in the Structure and Features of University Teachers since theEstablishment of the Ad Hoc Council on Education in Japan (in Japanese, JHEA, 2010).

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