The pandemic has struck at every nerve of the educational system. The growth of academic mobility has been curtailed by travel bans, border closures and community quarantines. Yet the situation has also highlighted the relevance of internationalization in education and its far-reaching effects on national development.

Amid the global pandemic that prevented travels and put people on quarantine, the training on information and communication technologies and strategic planning workshop for international relations officers of Philippine higher education institutions and state universities and colleges were successfully conducted by the University of Alicante last 15-19 June 2020 as facilitated by the European Foundation for Management Development.

The internationalization of the Philippines’ higher education institutions (HEIs) is doubtless beneficial in molding the next generation of global citizens. But most HEIs find that insufficient financial resources still pose a huge barrier for all involved, whether students, faculty, administration or staff.