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Introduction

Taipei Medical University (TMU) has been an active participant in a range of international higher education events. In addition to attendance to major conferences, TMU frequently joins the country pavilion organised by FICHET, the national desk that promotes Studying in Taiwan, to showcase TMU’s teaching and research excellence so as to attract partners for collaboration.

While the competition intensifies in international higher education, it has become imperative that higher education institutions (HEIs) act with a strategic plan in managing its international participation. TMU, in responding to the increasingly diversified environment for academic exchanges and collaboration, is inspired to enhance its current presence in the international arena through a targeted approach so as to a) efficiently maintain its existing portfolio in international collaboration and b) effectively expand its footprint to uncharted areas that are worthwhile exploring/investing.

Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE)

With a goal to activate and reinforce the internationalization of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region, APAIE was established by a Founding Committee consisting of university representatives from thirteen countries/territories in the Asia Pacific in 2004. APAIE annual conference is hosted in rotation by HEIs in the Asia Pacific region. Its Secretary Office is currently hosted by Korea University in Seoul, Korea, which has a strong influence on the organization of APAIE’s annual conference.

APAIE 2017 took place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, which attracted more than 1,400 participants from over 45 countries. Topics explored in the conferences are usually with a practical angle to help audiences develop approaches to best practice. Quality of sessions is generally on a par with industrial standards and the delegates are varied from Deans of International Affairs to junior administrators in International Education. For more information, please check https://www.apaie.org/intro/.

European Association for International Education (EAIE)

Founded in 1989, the EAIE is the acknowledged European center for expertise, networking and resources in the internationalization of higher education. As a member-led association, its mission is to help members succeed professionally and to contribute to developments in international higher education from a European perspective. EAIE’s goals, as stated in their Strategy 2020, are to inspire professionals, to be their voice, to remain relevant, and to strengthen the community.

Headquartered at Amsterdam, the EAIE Office encompasses a wide range of European perspectives with a highly organized operation that covers Events, Professional Development & Policy, Marketing & Communications, etc. Topics discussed in EAIE tend to embrace the global issues that creating social impacts on the youngsters from around the world, such as inter-cultural literacy, credit transferring and quality assurance, management of the global political crisis, etc. For more information, please check http://www.eaie.org/.

Association of International Educators (NAFSA)

NAFSA: Association of International Educators was initially founded in 1948 to promote the professional development of higher education practitioners dealing with international students. It is now the world’s largest non-profit association dedicated to international education and exchange. Its 10,000 members from over 150 countries are located at more than 3,500 institutions worldwide.

With a Washington-based office housing a fairly sizeable team of professionals, NAFSA has developed a tradition of organizing high-quality annual conference with stimulating sessions, diverse networking opportunities, and massive exhibitions that accommodate wide-ranging business interests. Financial implications of attending NAFSA events are on the higher side compared with the other two, as many of its activities are excluded from the standard delegation pass. The excessively large size of delegates also brings challenges to effectively managing one’s presence on site, though it also provides a valuable reference to higher education practitioners in professional development. For more information, please check http://www.nafsa.org/.

QS Summit Series

The organization

Founded in 1990, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is a British company specializing in education and study abroad. It offers publications and events which are branded to “broaden the scope of study abroad”. QS has been a major university ranking publisher since 2004, as well as the organiser of a number of annual conferences and exhibitions for international educators in Asia, Europe, America and Australasia to help the company establish its brand as an education service provider to attract interaction with and business from students, parents, and institutions from around the world.

The events

QS currently has a diverse event portfolio, which includes QS-APPLE, QS-MAPLE, QS WorldClass, Women in Leadership, moveon Conference, QS in Conversation, QS Summer School Summit, QS Subject Focus Summit, and QS EDUDATA Summit. These events are designed to facilitate professional networking and sharing of best practice in the higher education sector. Some are much smaller-scaled niche events targeting at female MBA candidates or users of QS services/products to improve customer satisfaction. For more information please check http://www.qs.com/conferences.html.

“This is a unique conference enabling academics to ‘kill all birds with one stone’ – network and make contacts, improve your own brand, learn from experts, and share knowledge.”

—Dr Svetlana Kuzmenko, Director at North-Caucasus Federal University, Russia

THE Summit Series

The organization

TES Global is a digital education company with a history of over 100 years. Times Higher Education, a sub-brand under TES Global, started to produce its own world university rankings in 2009, which for years has affected many of the higher education institutions from around the world. Started as a weekly magazine based in London, Times Higher Education reports specifically on news and issues related to higher education and is the United Kingdom’s leading publication in its field. Times Higher Education recently stepped into the business of consultancy, backed up by its ranking data product and in-house/acquired expertise in branding and marketing, to attract university customers to invest in their reputation management.

The events

THE rapidly created itself a range of summit events that are mildly mirrored to its ranking philosophy/methodology, which includes World Academic Summit, Emerging Economies Summit, Asia Universities Summit, Young Universities Summit, Innovation and Impact Summit, Research Excellence Summit and Teaching Excellence Summit. These events, similarly, are designed to facilitate professional networking and sharing of best practice in the higher education sector, though they tend to also encourage exploration of higher-level discussion on the trends and challenges seen in the socioeconomic landscape as a result of the global competition of higher education. For more information please check https://www.timeshighereducation.com/summits.

“This is one of the most intellectually stimulating conferences I have been to for some time. The (THE) summits are creating a vehicle for a governance-like discussion.”

—Mitchell Stevens, Associate Professor, Stanford University, USA