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Prof. Dr., North-West University, South Africa Charl Wolhuter, Prof. Dr., North-West University, South Africa  \nAbstract  \nIn keeping with the conference theme of transnational interactions in the global education landscape, this paper investigates the scope for partnerships between South African and Moroccan universities. The paper commences by explaining why internationalization is a key feature of universities. International partnerships between universities, as one form of internationalization, are then discussed. In both the Moroccan and South African higher education sectors, strong imperatives for internationalization are present. The scope for partnership between universities in two jurisdictions is a function of commonalities and complementarity, as well as the interrelationships between them. In comparing the cases of South African and Moroccan universities, these are abundantly present. The paper further notes that both countries face pressures to raise their international engagement profiles, as reflected in low scores on metrics such as international student and faculty ratios. Moreover, the historical legacy of South Africa’s academic boycott and Morocco’s ongoing transition from French to English as a medium of instruction creates distinct but potentially complementary rationales for cross-border collaboration. By pursuing South-South partnerships, both nations can avoid reinforcing northern hegemony—a key concern in critical internationalization scholarship—while addressing shared challenges such as graduate unemployment, funding constraints, and the need for decolonized knowledge production.  \nKeywords: Comparative and International Education, Global South, internationalization, Morocco, partnership between universities, South Africa  \nIntroduction  \nThe theme of this XXIV Bulgarian Comparative Education Society Conference is Education as an Ecosystem: A Global Dialogue, and the subtheme of this Thematic Session 1, Comparative and International Education, which dovetails with the conference theme, is “Mapping the global educational landscape, highlighting the diversity of national systems and transnational interactions”. One form of transnational interactions and one feature of the global education landscape that has thus far escaped much attention from the Comparative Education scholarly community (though it receives due attention  \nby scholars of the Higher Education scholarly community), and this conference in particular, is that of international partnerships between universities. This paper aims to stimulate discussion and research filling this lacuna by investigating the scope for partnerships between South African and Moroccan universities. The paper commences by explaining why internationalization is a key feature of universities. International partnerships between universities, as one form of internationalization, are then discussed. The imperatives for the internationalization of universities in South Africa and in Morocco are then explained. That is followed by a survey of the societal contexts and higher education systems of Morocco and South Africa. In conclusion, the scope for partnerships between South African and Moroccan universities is assessed.  \nInternationalization: historically a key feature of universities  \nFrom the very beginnings ofthe university as an institution, an international dimension has been conspicuous. The medieval university in Europe is widely taken as the first modern university, with the occasion when the University of Paris received its charter from the Pope in 1080 taken as year one of the history of universities (Boyd & King, 1975; Duggan, 1916, p. 100) lists as one of the five defining features of the medieval university, which distinguished it from the two other educational institutions in medieval Europe, namely the Cathedral Schools and the Mon","cbCaibhMAqzKTM1C","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibhMAqzKTM1C","pdf",206508,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Internationalization: historically a key feature of universities\n# Internationalization of universities: conceptual clarification and rationale","[{\"question\":\"What question does the paper address?\",\"answer\":\"The paper investigates the scope for partnerships between South African and Moroccan universities, aiming to stimulate discussion and research on international partnerships.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is internationalization important to universities in this paper?\",\"answer\":\"Internationalization is presented as a key feature of universities, and international partnerships between universities are treated as a central form of internationalization.\"},{\"question\":\"On what factors does the partnership scope depend?\",\"answer\":\"The paper states that the scope for partnership is a function of commonalities and complementarity, along with the interrelationships between the two higher education contexts.\"}]","Scope for University Partnerships Between South Africa and Morocco | PDF",1792046763]