ABSTRACT
Travelling overseas for higher education is not a new phenomenon in the world. However, the trend for internationalisation within 21st century universities can be seen as a proactive response to the changing social, civic and global issues at both local and global levels. Information overow, global migrations and interconnectedness between nations and regions have
increased the numbers of international students in higher education across the world. Diversity, in terms of the geopolitical locations of student cohorts, their multiple epistemic views and the variety of cultural ways of approaching learning, has now become a common characteristic in most of the universities, in particular in the global North.
