Summary:

This thesis aims at having a better understanding of the educational cooperation and
the mechanism of building educational cooperation. This is an empirical investigation
of the cooperation between UiN and CUST which have been lasted for 10 years. This
research mainly focus on four parts, namely educational cooperation, the
internationalization process (strategy), stakeholders and educational cooperation, and
the influence of cultural difference on educational cooperation, etc. In the
methodology, case study and a qualitative research approach have been used. Five
respondents had been included in semi-structured interviews and their perspectives
consist of the basis of the research. Among these aspect, stakeholders are classified
into three categories, including internal, external and interface, each of them plays
different roles in affecting the cooperation in education. The analysis of cultural
difference is based on professor Hofstede’s cultural dimension theory which divides
culture into six dimensions: Power distance, Masculinity & Femininity, Individualism
&Collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, long-term Orientation and Indulgence &
Restraint. This research focuses on the influence of cultural difference and
stakeholders on educational cooperation, and also has a look at the possible benefits
of educational cooperation between UiN and CUST. By doing these thing, this
research wants to get some implications for both universities and the countries and
further to make some contributions to the development of the educational cooperation
between the institutions of the two nations.