Academic Scientific JournalsLife in Transition: Problems and Solutions of Internationalization of Higher Education and its Promotion
Keywords:
Higher education, internationalization, curricula, networkAbstract
The paper covers the issues of studying trends in the educational programs for internationalization of education through analyzing of teaching and learning process and identifies the main trends of the development of the new educational environment in prospect, in Georgia taking into consideration the research questions: What do we have and what do we need? what do we teach, how do we teach and how will it be done? Are the curricula of internationalization prospectives satisfactory? Specific objectives suggested in prospect, are: 1) Compatibility of the curricula between the Higher Educational Institutions in the frame of Bologna Process; 2) Development of a multi-regional network and promotion of multi-lateral cooperation in Higher Education.
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