Capacity Building for Internationalization at a Technical University in Kazakhstan

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article has undergone minor changes. However, a serious revision of the issue of the representation of international experience is required. The authors contributed some information about the processes of internationalization in Malaysia. However, the scientific article requires a more detailed presentation of the international experience of internationalization. The attraction of additional sources will also enrich the list of references. 

Author Response

International experience and more reference sources have been added.

Reviewer 2 Report

The article has been corrected and I accept it for printing.

Author Response

Thank you!

Reviewer 3 Report

The work is now more solid, very interesting and can be very useful for the University of the study and other universities. You have done an excellent analysis. I congratulate you on your work.

Author Response

Thank you for your positive feedback!

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The article has undergone changes. The authors have been attentive to the comments. The article has been improved. The scientific content meets the goals and requirements of the journal. 

This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

• The link http://imlf.mobi/swat.pdf referred to on page 6, line 231, does not work.
• After table 6 on page 16 the values of the survey answers are put again and this was already explained before, there is no need to put it again at the end of the table. It is recommended to remove it after the table:

1 -development direction is not taken into account 341

2 - implemented at the formal level 342

3 - implemented unsystematically 343

4 - sufficient level for university positioning at the international level 344

5 - high level of implementation 345

 

• The link in reference 1 does not work either.
• STEM is a central part of the work, yet there is no explanation of how STEM works at the university. Is there interdisciplinary work in these areas, what is the methodology?
• There is a lack of a discussion of results just before the conclusions, or within them at the beginning. Where the findings of this paper are compared with what other authors have found on the same issues. It would be very appropriate to analyse other strategies for internationalisation adopted by other universities and make a discussion of the results of other authors and what this work proposes. For example Estrategia para la internacionalización de las universidades españolas 2015-2020 - Publications - Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (educacion.gob.es): https://sede.educacion.gob.es/publiventa/estrategia-para-la-internacionalizacion-de-las-universidades-espanolas-2015-2020/universidad/21475
• Some reference to limitations of the study would also be missing.

Reviewer 2 Report

In my opinion, the text in this form is not a scientific study. It can be used for educational purposes, not scientific. The presented analysis is also not an innovation. Universities use these methods to assess internationalization, which is now the basis of universities functioning.

Reviewer 3 Report

I wish this University good luck in this endeavor, but I am unsure whether it will be successful.  There seems to be little interest in it from people at the University.  That generally allows one to predict failure in this type of venture involving change, even necessary change.  On the other hand I do applaud the authors and their intentions.

Reviewer 4 Report

This article is devoted to one of the relevant topics for the modern educational space, namely building Capacity for Internationalization. Today, many universities in Kazakhstan are in the direction of improving universities' compliance with international educational trends. An example of the development of this direction is the universities of Kazakhstan. In this regard, this research has a modern relevance and scientific significance.
The abstract, in general, reflects the content of the article. However, the authors point out that they are analyzing 9 STEM universities without specifying which ones are in the annotations. This information would make the annotation more understandable for the reader.
Unfortunately, the "Introduction" does not contain information about what international experience the authors of the article are familiar with, but not about which. The article does not reflect how the experience of universities in Kazakhstan is different or similar to the experience of universities in other countries. There is no information about the history of the question being investigated.

In "Conclusion", lines 530-533.
"As a part of Task iii, the analysis of the results obtained and the preparation of recommendations for changes were carried out: a tool for implementing the internationalization of the educational process in a technical university was identified."
This paragraph needs a little explanation. Without explanation, this information does not create a sense of integrity when reading the article.