تدويل التعليم بأقسام المكتبات و المعلومات المصرية لتحقيق القدرة التنافسية : الواقع و المأمول

الملخص EN

The study aims to: identify the reality of the processes of internationalization of education in the Egyptian departments of libraries and information science in light of recent trends, and to suggest a number of practicable procedures for the internationalization of education, in order to achieve the competitiveness of these departments at the international level.

So, the study followed the field method, to collect the required data that were carried out between the 2015/2016 and 2019/2020 academic years, depending on several tools included: standardized interviews with department heads, a checklist, an e-questionnaire directed to faculty members to identify the internationalization activities that they implemented, departments' pages in social media and web, records of expatriate department, records of the department of scientific and cultural relations, records of graduate studies, records of faculty research.

The study was applied to a stratified random sample of the departments of libraries and information in universities subject to the Egyptian Universities Organizing Law, consisted of seven departments in universities: Cairo, Alexandria, Tanta, Menoufia, Beni Suef, Sohag, and The New Valley.

The most prominent results of the study is that: The internationalization of education did not receive enough attention in the departments, as it did not prepare a specific strategic vision.

and its operations were: limited, individual, and improvised in Arab regional.

It included a small number of: students mobility at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, faculty mobility, curriculums, scientific research, but there weren’t any international academic partnerships; This case weakened the international competitiveness of the departments.

The study recommended that the Egyptian and Arab library and information departments mustn’t delay internationalization of its education, in order to have a pioneering and competitive place, and that the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education adopts a national strategic vision for internationalization, and provides all the necessary resources for implementation and motivating the participants.