Relationship of Universities’ Resources and Competencies with the Results of Their Export Activities
https://doi.org/10.15826/umpa.2020.01.003
Abstract
The article presents the results of a study aimed at identifying universities’ resources and competencies interrelated with their export activities, and at analyzing these interrelations. To achieve this purpose, the indicators of university activities over a four-year period and the dynamics of their changes are analysed. With the help of panel data analysis methods, the relationships between quantitative indicators characterizing the resources, universities’ competencies, and the results of their export activities are estimated. The annual performance indicators of 589 Russian universities are analyzed through four academic years – from the 2013/14 up to the 2016/17. Over the indicated period, 74 % of the universities included in the sample increased the number of foreign students, this growth in most cases being unstable if taken year by year. The universities with positive changes in the number of foreign students show the following resources and competencies: the development of incoming students’ international academic mobility; international teaching staff and a high level of their qualifications; partnership with enterprises for organizing student practice; international cooperation in research. The results of the study may be of interest for universities planning to develop the export of educational services and making decisions on the implementation of measures aimed at attracting foreign students. The paper analyzes the performance of universities having the necessary data for four years in open access. For further research, the list of analyzed indicators can be expanded, with the values of indicators considered for a longer period of time.
About the Author
A. V. Melikyan
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alisa V. Melikyan – Senior Lecturer
20 Myasnitskaya str., Moscow, 101000
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Melikyan A.V. Relationship of Universities’ Resources and Competencies with the Results of Their Export Activities. University Management: Practice and Analysis. 2020;24(1):44-59. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15826/umpa.2020.01.003
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