Internationalization: Global Understanding Universities

Internationalization has become a common topic of concern in universities and in general. Along with concern, it also focuses on the quality and relevance of education being offered, to prepare students in an international and inter-cultural context.

Nowadays, universities also think that it’s important and relevant to have internationalized a part of the system as it enriches the experience of universities and students and help in having a broader aspect. Hence, it aims and fulfills the purpose of having graduates who are capable of resolving the problems in a variety of locations with cultural, economical, social and environmental sensitivity.

In this essay, we will focus on how internationalization will help students to have global understanding

Sometimes due to various factors and reasons, the culture mix is taken as a barrier amongst students. As international students does not get cooperation from domestic students in terms of workplace, welfare support and local guidance. Also, teachers and guiders also take time to accept the concept of international students. Hence, international students find the lack of support and motivation from teachers.

Domstic students have preconceived notion that they feel more comfortable, have same wave length, share a similar communication styleand sense of humour with peers from the same cultural background.

Also, the trending of encouragement of more and more international students has lead to the feeling of inequality among the domestic students.

It has been observed and noticed that people from similar background and culture prefer to work with their own group of people. The reason has been seen as a more comfortable feeling working with people sharing a common language. In addition, students prefer to hang around with peers having similar commitments, interst and groups outside university life also. Hence, each group and set of people hold negative stereotypical views of the other set of

Also, it is important to prepare students to live and work productively and harmoniously in a global environment in future by bridging this gap of cross culture.

Universities started focusing on aspects such as social forums for promoting cross culture awareness and understanding; fostering tolerance of diversity; discovering alternative ways of thinking and developing inter-cultural skills.

By sharing the educational experience with international students, domestic students realized the enrichment in their learning graph, also the broaden perspective in their outlook towards various fields. The presence of cross cultural environment in university provided a unique social forum for all which enhanced their understanding, experience and richness of other culture. Also, the presence has created the platform for fostering the development of cross-cultural awareness and communication skills as well as social