Internationalization strategies of Chilean higher education for the development of a positive cooperation

Abstract

This article shows the main strategies used by Chilean Higher Education stakeholders to support their internationalization, at the undergraduate level, for the development of a positive cooperation. For this, an analysis was carried out on the approaches and the logics of international cooperation that some organisms, both at the international and national level cooperation, have expressed. Besides, some higher education institutions (IES in Spanish) were included, to understand how these institutions, manage to develop cooperation through internationalization, and what are the main strategies used in the Chilean higher education system to promote its internationalization and the development of positive cooperation? In order to answer this question, a document analysis of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Chilean Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) and the National Accreditation Commission (CNA) was carried out. In addition, an interview and a questionnaire were conducted to obtain the participating parties’ perspective on how international cooperation is carried out.
According to the obtained information, we can conclude the main strategies used by the Chilean Higher Education to support its internationalization for the development of a positive cooperation are international publications with the purpose of strengthening international scientific relations and knowledge dissemination, and teacher training abroad with the purpose of
strengthening academic mobility.