Internationalization of Vocational Education in the Arctic Council Member-States’ Universities

• Published in: Arctic and North
• Main Author: Maria A. PITUKHINA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Northern Arctic Federal University 2020
• Subjects: academic mobility in the arctic; vocational education; monitoring; internationalization; scipo; demo; Arctic; Canada; Norway; Arctic Council; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.37482/issn2221-2698.2020.41.220; https://doaj.org/article/af066c8f442b4e3cb8a4ef08d74417d7

Nowadays, the potential for international cooperation in the Arctic is concentrated within the framework of such an influential international structure as the Arctic Council, where Russia is presiding over soon in 2021–2023. The article is devoted to international cooperation evaluation of 15 Arctic universities from 7 Arctic Council member-states with a student contingent of at least 3,600 people (2 in the USA, 1 in Iceland, 5 in Russia, 2 in Finland, 2 in Sweden, 2 in Norway, 1 in Canada). It seems possible to evaluate international cooperation potential between Arctic universities through the prism of 10 quantitative indicators, including the number of international students admitted to the university; number of courses taught in English; number of educational programs for international students; a number of foreign scientists invited to the university, etc. We can evaluate both academic mobility within the Arctic universities and vocational education internationalization due to accumulated statistical data.