scholarly journals International mobility of students in Italy and the UK: does it pay off and for whom?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Béatrice d’Hombres ◽  
Sylke V. Schnepf
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Education Students ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Uk

AbstractMore and more European higher education students decide to take part in international student mobility (ISM). However, not much is known about the actual benefits of studying abroad. This paper assesses UK and Italian students’ returns from ISM. Three research questions are addressed. First, does international student mobility increase graduates’ employment probability and postgraduate study uptake? Second, do the returns to ISM differ according to the socio-economic background of graduates? Third, do the returns to ISM vary between two countries with contrasting labour market and education systems? Results, based on propensity score matching, indicate that mobility is positively associated with a higher employment probability. Mobility abroad is likewise linked with a higher likelihood of enrolling in postgraduate studies in Italy. The benefits of mobility in terms of employment do not differ significantly across socio-economic groups. However, mobility is particularly effective in boosting the uptake of postgraduate studies among mobile Italian graduates with a low socio-economic background. In Italy, ISM returns are substantially higher than in the UK, which could reflect that the skills accumulated and the signals sent to potential employers through ISM are greater in Italy.

scholarly journals Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Darla Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New York ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
International Student Mobility

In the context of internationalization and globalization of higher education, Kemal Gürüz’s book, Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy, explores contributions made by international students and scholars in higher education from a historical perspective. A native of Turkey, Gürüz studied and worked for a while at Harvard University and the State University of New York in the United States. He presents the international mobility of students and scholars with in-depth historical, cultural and socio-economical perspectives. Gürüz highlights global knowledge economy, institutional patterns of higher education, enrollments, governance, and recent changes in higher education of several countries in this book.

Supporting International Student Mobility Through Resourced International Internships

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wake ◽  
Marianne D. Sison ◽  
Rilke Muir
Keyword(s):  
Global Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Inadequate Knowledge ◽  
Global Work ◽  
University Services

Higher education students are increasingly being encouraged by governments and their universities to participate in global mobility activities, and yet historically few received appropriate preparation, reporting that they had inadequate knowledge of the country and the industries to which they were headed. This article discusses the result of a student-centred research-led project which resulted in the creation of resources for communications students undertaking solo international mobility activities. In particular, we discuss the ‘Global Work Ready’ project developed in an Australian university for communications students headed predominately to Asia. Using iterative participatory action research, a website was designed to improve preparation and outcomes for students. The resources were developed after in-depth interviews with 14 former international interns, three host employers and a cross-university team of staff interested in global education. The focus is on providing information and advice for students before, during and after their internship, much of it in the students’ own words. Combined with links to relevant university services and resources, the Global Work Ready website provides a template for resources for students that can save staff hours of one-to-one advice and support and enables students to access relevant information as and when they are ready for it.

scholarly journals Towards developing the skill of transcommunicating among tertiary education students: the role of study abroad programmes

1970 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlena Iwona Bielak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
International Student ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Education Students ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Global World

The objective of the paper is to highlight the need of adjusting the skills of tertiary education graduates to the requirements of the present global world, which entails the idea that higher education should be aimed at developing abilities that will facilitate communicating within and across a variety of communities, ethnicities and cultures. In the paper it is postulated that tertiary education graduates should be equipped, inter alia, with the skill of transcomunicating based on the idea of equality of cultures and languages. Due attention is paid to the role of study abroad programmes in the aforementioned process. Accordingly, the research part of the paper delves into the influence of the Erasmus+ mobility on the development of transcommunication among tertiary education students and rests on the analysis of the material gathered during interviews with learners who participated in the international student mobility conducted within The Erasmus+ Framework. The research results point to the key role of experiential learning held in territorial contexts in the process of developing the skill of transcommunicating among the research participants.

scholarly journals Main challenges to international student mobility in the European arena

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina López-Duarte ◽  
Jane F. Maley ◽  
Marta M. Vidal-Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
High Performance ◽  
International Student ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis study analyses international student mobility (ISM) in Europe since the 1999 Bologna Declaration. International mobility of higher education students is both a driver and a consequence of the Bologna Process and emerges as a relevant issue in a wide range of research areas. This literature review develops a qualitative content analysis of the set of high-performance articles published between 2000 and 2018 and identified through a wide range of bibliometric tools: direct (first generation) citation counts; indirect or accumulated impact; early influence; adjusted impact with respect to year of publication, type of document, and discipline; and alternative metrics that measure interactions in the internet and social media. The content analysis focuses on the pending achievements and main challenges to ISM, among them: attracting non-European students to whole degree programs, the need for actual and further convergence in programs and systems to ensure real compatibility, the impact of HE ISM on the promotion of the European citizenship and consciousness, the sharp imbalance between credit and degree mobility, the need to strengthen the link between ISM and employability, the existing social selectivity in European ISM, the frequent social segregation problems faced by international students.

scholarly journals Recent Trends and Issues in International Student Mobility

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans De Wit
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Income Generation ◽  
Pull Factors ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Uk

Institutions of higher education recently emphasized a view of international students as a source of income generation. Like the UK and Australia, other countries have also introduced out of state fees for international students. The competition for international students has increased even among traditionally sending countries. Selected recruitment of top talents is also a trend. Reputation and employability are the pull-factors for international students: in turn, "brain drain" is a problem in developing countries at the end of the chain.

scholarly journals The Entangled Infrastructures of International Student Migration: Lessons from Covid-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Parvati Raghuram ◽  
Gunjan Sondhi
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
The Media ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe impact of Covid-19 on international student mobility has been noted by policy makers and the media ever since the global lockdowns started in early 2020. However, most of the concerns focus on what the drop in student mobility means for the finances of the countries and educational institutions to which students would have moved; there has been little exploration of the students’ own experiences of Covid-19. This chapter explores the entangled education, migration, and finance infrastructures that shape international student migration and how they failed the students during the pandemic. It draws on questionnaires and interviews conducted with international student migrants from a range of countries and who are registered to study in the UK to point to how migration policies, consular services, educational institutions, and travel industry all affected students. It points to how these components are entangled, and that their failure during the pandemic led to particular forms of immobility and mobility, leaving many students stuck in uncertain and precarious situations. The chapter ends by suggesting that reading the pandemic as an acute unprecedented event is important but inadequate. It is also a window into the everyday failures that the entangled infrastructures of international student mobility posed before Covid-19, how these came to be and who benefited from these infrastructures.

scholarly journals Why Deteriorating Relations, Xenophobia, and Safety Concerns Will Deter Chinese International Student Mobility to the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Allen ◽  
Ying Ye
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Chinese International Student ◽  
Trump Administration

Collaborations between American and Chinese universities have been critical to global knowledge production. Chinese students accounted for over a third of all international students in the United States prior to COVID-19, but the pandemic paused most global mobility in 2020. We argue that this international mobility to the United States will not fully recover if larger stressors are left unaddressed. First, relations between the United States and China have deteriorated in recent years, especially under the Trump administration, with growing suspicion against Chinese researchers and scholars. Second, viral acts of violence and anti-Asian incidents have painted the United States as unsafe for Chinese students. Finally, given the mismanaged response to the pandemic, it may take years before trust returns from abroad. While the Biden administration has promised to curb some of these issues, the perceptions of the United States may have been permanently altered. 

scholarly journals International mobility of students in modern conditions of transformation in the global market of services (regional aspect)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Olena Bulatova ◽  
Оleg Zaikovsky
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Global Market ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Waves

Modern global processes are stated to have significantly influenced transformations in the higher education system. On the other hand, internationalisation of higher education has become a key factor in the development of global processes. Accor-dingly, it becomes necessary to determine the specific nature of the internationalisation processes of higher education in different countries, as well as the involvement thereof in the processes of academic mobility at establishing the educational space transformation under the conditions of globalization, at grounding the changing place and role of universities as higher education internationalisation contribute to enhancing the convergence of national educational systems, providing a significant influence on the level of competitiveness of national economies. The authors define the peculiarities of attrac-ting countries to mobility processes and systematise the waves of international student mobility, taking into account the geopolitical and geo-economic factors of positive and negative influence of institutional drivers. Furthermore, dynamic shifts in international student mobility are calculated and the regional distribution of foreign students by educational level is determined. The purpose of the article is to identify the waves and substantiate the factors of international student mo-bility in the context of the transformation of the global market of educational services.

scholarly journals The International Education Market: Some Emerging Trends

2016 ◽  
pp. 13-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Kemp
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Major Exception ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Selection Of

This article provides a brief overview of recent trends in international student mobility and implications for higher education institutions as they seek to recruit international students. International student mobility has continued to surge, as reflected in recent data from most major destination countries. However changes are occurring, some large and some subtle, and a selection of these trends are briefly discussed below. The major exception to strong enrolment growth in recruitment has been the UK, where tough immigration regulations have impacted directly on international student numbers.

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