Enhanced Internationalisation of Danish Education and Training

Policy Paper to Parliament
April 2004

The most important of the Government's initiatives for enhanced internationalisation of Danish education and training are that: the international dimension of the content of education and training programmes must be enhanced, the mobility of pupils, students and teachers must be enhanced, the use of IT as an internationalisation tool must be enhanced, the opportunities for institutions to both cooperate and compete must be increased, Denmark's involvement in international cooperation forums, including international comparisons of education systems, must be enhanced, and internationalisation initiatives must be followed up and assessed.

The Policy Paper was submitted to Parliament in April 2004.

Contents:

Preface

1. Internationalisation of education
1.1 Why internationalise education?
1.2 What is internationalisation of education?
1.3 How far have we come?
1.4 Existing legislation and internationalisation

2. The Government's strategy for internationalising education
2.1 The international dimension of the content of education and training programmes must be enhanced
2.2 The mobility of pupils, students and teachers must be enhanced
2.3 The use of IT as an internationalisation tool must be enhanced
2.4 Opportunities for institutions to cooperate and compete internationally must be increased
2.5 Danish involvement in international cooperation forums for education, including international comparisons of education systems, must be enhanced
2.6 Internationalisation initiatives must be followed up and assessed

3. Appendices
Appendix 1: The Bologna Declaration on higher education
Appendix 2: The Copenhagen Declaration on the vocational education and training sector
Appendix 3: Objectives report: Different systems, common aims for 2010
Appendix 4: The Lisbon Convention
Appendix 5: Mobility statistics
Appendix 6: Enhanced Internationalisation of Education – Summary of strategy and actions

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