Evaluative policies about internationalization in Higher Education

Abstract

The article examines the transfer of evaluative policies on the internationalization of higher education. Although evaluative policies have always been shaped by international influence, the study assumes that the internationalization of evaluative policies has intensified since the World Conference on Higher Education (HE) for the XXI Century: Vision and Action (UNESCO, 1998) process that resembles several speeches in a single global educational discourse. In this sense, this interpretative research aims to analyze external policies resulting from the agreement reached at the World Conference on Higher Education for the XXI Century: Vision and Action with regard to 'internationalization of Higher Education', as well as advice transferred as educational policies and later translated to developing countries in general and to Brazilian Higher Education (HE) in particular. The research with an interpretative approach used Document Analysis to analyze the following texts, especially on the theme of Internationalization of Higher Education. They are: the Conference in question (UNESCO, 1998); the National Education Plan (2014); and the External Institutional Assessment Instrument (EIAI) - (INEP, 2017). As a result, it is confirmed that the advice of this particular Conference influenced the evaluative policies developed by INEP for HE, however, they also alert to the emergence of adaptation of academic practices from remote education, caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, which can have a significant impact on the internationalization concept of higher education, since communication technologies have brought about incredible changes in record time.