INTERNATIONALISATION AND MOBILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Sustainable development has become an important issue on international, regional and national agendas concerning education, internationalisation and mobility policy over the past few years. The new vision of education emphasises a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to developing knowledge and skills needed for a sustainable future, as well as the necessary change in values, behaviour and lifestyles. More and more students are choosing to study abroad with the Erasmus programme, which supports cooperation and mobility in higher education. Erasmus, Erasmus Mundus and Tempus programmes support mobility, partnerships and international educational cooperation. Higher education institutions have identified at least three criteria for a "beneficial" curriculum: internationalisation is an explicit goal of the degree programmes, there is room in the curriculum for internationalisation and the curriculum allows flexibility when it comes to details such as recognition of credits or recommended study schedule. The programme also supports cooperation among higher education institutions and mobility for academic, technical and administrative staff. The current social development is changing the European higher education scene through increased inter national student and faculty mobility, internationalization of study programs and schools, and the opening of local higher-education markets to international competition. The world of work, growing more and more international and multicultural, needs people who are able to find their way across national, cultural and ethnic boundaries Paper discovers mobility , internationalization and sustainability implementation into higher education programs in the Slovenian higher educational private institution and ways of fostering sustainability in higher education. Based on findings of the evaluation, this paper outlines a mixture of recommendations and ideas on several levels: national, institutional and operational.