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ITF Evaluation Study, 2010 50Facilitating Partnerships Between Universities. South African Journal of HigherEducation, 16(1), 15-21.This article presents the role that internationalisation can play in facilitatingpartnerships between higher education institutions across continents. An example of apartnership between a university in South Africa and a university in the United States ofAmerica is be provided as authentic evidence that, assuming the notion of ―partnering‖,internationalisation could significantly contribute to university education.2. Bonfiglio, O. (1999). The difficulties of internationalizing the undergraduate curriculum.Journal of Studies in International Education, 3(2), 3-18.Five reasons why U.S. colleges and universities attempting to internationalize thecurriculum have major difficulties include: (1) competing purposes and directions that shiftwith the political and economic climate; (2) governmental constraints; (3) institutionalstructures that block change; (4) theoretical assumptions about curriculum that do not matchglobal realities; and (5) lack of data to support curricular change.3. Carter, L. (2005). Globalization and science education: Rethinking science educationreforms. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 45(5), 561-580.The author argues that globalization is implicated in the discourses of scienceeducation and research. The author further maintains that ―developing globalization as atheoretical construct to help formulate new questions and methods to examine thesequestions can provide science education with opportunities to expand the conceptual andanalytical frameworks of much of its present and future scholarship.‖4. Currie, J. (1998). Globalization practices and the professoriate in Anglo-Pacific and NorthAmerican universities. Comparative Education Review, 42(1), 15-29.Globalization has brought market and business practices into universities, but withserious negative ramifications. Interviews with 253 U.S. and Australian faculty, plus additionaldata drawn from New Zealand and Canadian studies, focused on the rise of performancebasedaccountability and corporate managerialism and their effects on faculty workingconditions, collegiality, and faculty status in the university power structure.5. De Wit, H. (1995). Strategies for the internationalization of higher education: Acomparative study of Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States of America.(Report No. 90-74721-04-4). (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED398804).This document reports on a project focusing on the development of strategies byinstitutions of higher education for greater internationalization and reformulation of themissions of teaching, research and service.6. Goodwin, C., & Nacht, M. (1991). Missing the boat: The failure to internationalizeAmerican higher education. Netherlands: Springer.