Mobility and Migration in Asian Pacific Higher Education

Student development theories (SDT) focus on the growth and change occurring in students while attending higher education. In this article, we propose that the application of student development theories supports holistic development in international students and helps us understand international students’ academic success and integration. We outline a combination of student development models, derived from SDT, and interact them with concepts from international student mobility and migration (ISM). These models, when applied to student services, may assist higher education institutions (HEIs) in designing student services for international students enhancing academic success and integration.

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International Skill Flows and Migration

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199655366.013.27 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

James Wickham

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Brain Drain ◽

Financial Services ◽

Circular Migration ◽

Skilled Migration ◽

Permanent Settlement ◽

The Usa ◽

And Migration ◽

Limiting Case ◽

Oecd Data

Migrants are increasingly skilled. Historically British emigration was disproportionately skilled and new comparative OECD data shows the continuing brain drain from Europe to the USA. However skilled migration is best understood as skilled mobility not migration: permanent settlement in a destination country is a limiting case within a multiplicity of movements exemplified by the international commuting of the financial services elite. Immigration policies increasingly attempt to attract the best and the brightest. Rising mobility is driven by firms’ recruitment policies, but also by individuals’ motivations which are often non-financial. Skilled mobility is now claimed to benefit both origin and destination countries through circular migration and knowledge transfer. However, skilled mobility can also promote privatisation of higher education in origin countries and lower investment in training in receiving countries. A typology of skilled mobility suggests some forms can increase income inequality in destination countries.

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Higher Education Residence and Migration, 1976

ICPSR Data Holdings ◽

10.3886/icpsr07646 ◽

1984 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

And Migration

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Mobility, Internationalisation, Higher Education

Handbook of Research on Trends in European Higher Education Convergence - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-5998-8.ch003 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 44-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Maria da Conceição Pereira Ramos

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Higher Education Policy ◽

Added Value ◽

Social Responses ◽

Academic Mobility ◽

Educational Culture ◽

Internationalisation Of Higher Education ◽

European Higher Education ◽

Other World ◽

And Migration

In this chapter, the authors address the following issues: convergence of internationalisation paths in universities and trends in European higher education; international cooperation and education regarding the internationalisation of higher education policy in Europe and other world regions; mobility trends with the growth of selective and qualified migration; student flows and migration in the higher education globalisation and internationalisation process; European and national policies for academic mobility and internationalisation of higher education; consequences of academic mobility and migration regarding the professional value of mobility, interculturalism, and higher education; institutional and social responses to internationalisation, Europeanisation, and globalisation of higher education. The authors note how international academic mobility represents a professional added value and a cultural, scientific, and technological enrichment for higher education, which broadens the perspectives of the individuals and institutions involved. The internationalisation of higher education contributes to spreading an educational culture with a tendency to establish itself as a European and global educational model.

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