The New Global Regionalism: A Case For The Globalization Of Higher Education In Central Asia

Abstract

The higher education policy development and reforms at regional level
have attempted to overcome the challenges and impacts of globalization
in the current transformation to knowledge-based global economy.
Universities of Central Asia are being involved in internationalization
processes establishing both bilateral and multilateral co-operations
across borders.
Through integration schemes, international and regional institutions and
their programs and programs of various countries are engaging in policy
harmonization processes to foster more integration and provide regional
remedies for the common challenges of globalization in their respective
regions.
Researchers are also engaged in academic debates and analyze various
higher education system integration discourses at professional level.
Most of the theories and practices used in higher education discourses
however are taken from other experiences, best practices and when
terms and concepts from other experiences migrate to the higher
education sector of the region and vice versa there is sometimes a
ground for misunderstanding unless they are conceptually framed and
analyzed.
This particular article focuses on possible regional and global integration
and higher education harmonization issues. It discusses the process of
policy harmonization in higher education and interprets the notions of
global and regional integration theories in the interpretive paradigms of
policy formulations. These interpretive paradigms provide a theoretical
perspective on conceptual framework of higher education harmonization
and integration schemes.