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<\/a><\/p>\nDr Tiffany Cone\u2019s public lecture began with an overview of the Asian University of Women (AUW) before providing an outline of her current collaborative research on higher education and internationalisation.<\/p>\n
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Dr Cone advised that most academic women at her University were on full scholarships and many were from displaced backgrounds. They usually entered University after undertaking programmes to improve their literacy, numerical skills, communication in the English language and critical thinking.<\/p>\n
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Dr Cone\u2019s current research project with Dr Vivienne Anderson of the Higher Education Development Centre at the University of Otago seeks to explore the reasons migrant and refugee women choose tertiary institutions, their sense of identity formation and belonging, similarities and differences between their narratives, and how the women\u2019s narratives might suggest new ways of conceptualising internationalisation.<\/p>\n
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Drawing on rich personal testimonies within the AUW student body, Dr Cone noted that some students in the study envisaged \u2018developing\u2019 nations as more interesting and promising as postgraduate study sites than traditional \u2018education provider\u2019 countries. Most students communicated a desire to return to their homes after study in order to contribute to their communities.<\/p>\n
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In light of the women\u2019s narratives, Dr Cone suggested a need to rethink internationalisation in relation to universities\u2019 commitment to shared humanity rather than the global economy.<\/p>\n
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