MODELING THE APPROACHES TO MANAGING JOINT CO-OP INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The paper offers an overview and an in-depth analysis of a management framework for developing cooperation between international higher education institutions. Given the key areas and strategic opportunities from the international higher education institution partnership, the study has identified the specifics of international cooperation that can affect the performance efficiency of international activities of higher education institutions along with providing a better focus on the range of mechanisms that can be adopted to boost cooperation between international higher education institutions to increase their efficiency. In addition, the study explores the validity prospects for the above management mechanism as an effective toolkit to enhance HEI global competitiveness. The research findings demonstrate that a higher education system, in the narrow sense, is a set of organizations (institutions) that produce (provide) educational services to individuals (consumers) who pursue higher education. From this perspective, the higher education system includes institutions of higher education, as well as other organizations: licensing, certification and accreditation bodies and research institutions that carry out analytical research in the area of higher education development; monitoring organizations – to maintain higher education quality assurance; media; NGOs; donor organizations. In this context, the primary objective of the education system is to gain maximum effectiveness and efficiency of educational activities. Apart from the above, this paper seeks to explore the effects from education internationalization, thus demonstrating that this process is critical in terms of fostering harmonization of different education systems (at the global level, as well as in the nation-wide settings). The study also asserts that education internationalization creates favourable environment to effective implementation of the goals of sustainable development, in particular those related to human capital development through education. Within the framework of this research, sustainable development of society in the context of higher education and science internationalization and global progress of humanity as well as the institutionalization transformations in political, economic and social domains is viewed as a holistic and multi-level interaction of economies, societies, states, social institutions, cultures, peoples, nations, worldviews, etc. that ultimately affects both the national models of education and science, as well as translates into a change of the global educational and research paradigm.