International Conference on Internationalization of Higher Education

Infosym 2010education institutions.
(International Conference on Internationalization ofIn order to explore these dimensions, Symbiosis
Higher Education with special reference toInternational (Deemed University) is organizing an
Management Education)International Conference on Internationalization of
The Indian higher education system has witnessed aHigher Education with special reference to
significant expansion in the recent years, especially inManagement Education, at its world class campus,
terms of the number of institutions and the studentsituated at Pune – 411 042, India on 14th &
enrollment. According to the report on FICCI Higher15th October 2010.
Education Summit 2009, India has more than 400The objectives of the conference are:
universities and 20,000 colleges and out of these,- To provide academicians, business leaders, students
about 63% are privately held, unaided institutions.and researchers, a platform to present and discuss
Though these are positive trends, the Indian highervarious aspects of Internationalization of Higher
education system continues to show manyEducation.
shortcomings which create challenges in fulfilling future- To find out emerging trends in internationalization of
expectations, mainly arising due to globalization. Inhigher education and to apply them to make Indian
spite of having more higher education institutions thanhigher education world class.
any other country in the world, very few Indian- To examine the special challenges in internationalizing
higher education institutions feature in the list ofManagement Education, which has a strong local
leading institutions in the world. At the same time,national dimension,- unlike the pure sciences or even
globalization has brought the world closer which hassocial sciences like Economics, that remain constant
expanded the horizons of Indian students who areacross boundaries.
expecting a world class education from Indian higher