Capacity building for internationalization at a technical university in Kazakhstan
Jantassova D. Churchill D. Kozhanbergenova A. Shebalina O.
November 2021MDPI
Education Sciences
2021#11Issue 11
This article discusses the internationalization capacity building project at the Karaganda Technical University (‘KTU’) in Kazakhstan. The project, entitled “Capacity building for the internationalization of a technical university by means of digital learning technologies,” was supported by the fund “Scientific foundations “Mangilik el” (education of the 21st century, fundamental and applied research in the humanities)” for scientists 2020–2022. The project’s primary purpose was to explicate a sustainable strategy for internationalizing a Kazakh technical university, considering the national and international contexts, evaluating internationalization capacity needs, formulating and implementing a capacity-building response for internationalization, and enhancing the qualifications and abilities of students and teachers to an internationally comparable level. In addition, the project delivers a set of strategies for internationalization and a benchmarking methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of internationalization processes. The benchmarking analysis of the internationalization process of a university has been conducted through a classification method, comparative analysis, multi-factor SWOT analysis, and correlation analysis.
Benchmarking , Capacity building , Internationalization , Kazakhstan higher education , SWOT analysis , Technical university
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Foreign Languages Department, Karaganda Technical University, Karaganda, 100027, Kazakhstan
Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Department of International Relations, Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Karaganda, 010008, Kazakhstan
Department of Social Sciences, Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Karaganda, 010008, Kazakhstan
Foreign Languages Department
Faculty of Education
Department of International Relations
Department of Social Sciences
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