Accelerating Sustainable Higher Education Internationalisation Aspirations: Strengthening International Collaboration in Higher Education via Foreign Universities Partnerships

International collaborations between higher education institutions bring significant contributions to the overall ecosystem of an organisation, from the personnel, students, and the global community as a whole. The internationalisation of an institution is one of the mechanisms communities adapt to the idea of globalisation. This paper discusses the effective methods of strengthening international collaboration between Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) and German universities via a dual-degree programme. The dual-degree programme is designed to invent graduates who are extensively prepared to face the future challenges of globalisation. The institution has implemented various approaches to strengthen the programme's strong foundation to intensify the primary purpose of internationalisation, such as establishing a comprehensive German language proficiency test to prepare the students for the dual-degree programme. However, language is not the sole approach to boost internationalisation as intercultural skills, extensive academic collaboration programmes, and mobility programmes are interconnected to the idea of internationalisation. These approaches are momentous to ensure the dual-degree programme's efficacy in attaining the purposes of academic collaboration and enriching students' experiences. In addition to the approaches adopted, different initiatives are recommended to improvise the internationalisation notion to facilitate the advancement of the internationalisation programme of the university. In conclusion, the essence of internationalisation requires various concepts to be implemented by the institution to strengthen international collaboration.