STUDENT MOBILITY AS THE ELEMENT OF INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Iveta Mietule ◽  
Iluta Arbidāne ◽  
Laura Kalniņa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
The World ◽  
World Hypothesis ◽  
Statistical Survey ◽  
Research Period

Scientific researches on the potential of export of higher education became topical more than 10 years ago, but this issue remains very topical nowadays as well, and it is essential to keep searching for solutions for the future development of this area. The aim of the paper is to analyse the general trends of student mobility in Latvia in the context of the student mobility in the world.  Hypothesis of the research - comparative research on the student mobility rates in the research period from 2011 to 2016 shows that there is higher growth of student mobility in Latvia than on the global scale. The number of mobile students in the research period is increasing both in Latvia and in the world, but the statistical survey in Latvia confirms that this growth in Latvia is more significant. 

scholarly journals INTERNATIONALIZATION AND COOPERATION OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM OF UKRAINE IN THE CONDITIONS OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Svitlana Viktorivna Bebko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
International Learning ◽  
Positive Effect

Modern higher education takes an important role in facilitating mobility, including youth, innovation, economic growth, capitalization of human potential. Given the instability and severe challenges of today, there is an increasing need to strengthen partnerships between higher education institutions at both the national and international levels, conducting a common educational policy, forecasting and planning activities for sustainable development and strengthening competitive positions in the market of educational services. This highlights show the need for theoretical and methodological rethinking of the features of new forms and approaches to ensure the effectiveness of internationalization of higher education in Ukraine and cooperation of partner institutions, which should become effective mechanisms for achieving goals and solving complex problems, including access to education, quality and efficiency, capitalization of human potential. In addition, with the beginning of quarantine measures, significant changes are taking place in the direction of internationalization of higher education. It has been proven that internationalization and cooperation in higher education, international learning, including joint online learning, internships, student mobility as tools of interaction has significant potential for involving a significant number of people in intercultural learning on a global scale. The need for effective internationalization is associated with significant opportunities for universities with limited resources to implement their intentions. Finding a compromise will promote transnational cooperation partnerships both inside the country and internationally, and the main features of internationalization should be sustainability, interdisciplinarity, creativity, openness. Achieving these components will have a positive effect not only for the higher education sector, but also for society as a whole.

Student Mobility Across the World and India

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheelan Misra
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Open University ◽  
Educational Marketing ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

In this era of educational marketing, education has become a commodity to be purchased by a consumer in order to build a skill set to be used in the market place and no more is it only recognized as the assets of skills, attitudes and values required for citizenship and effective participation in today’s society. Moreover, with the globalization phenomenon, which was always reflected in the education sector especially in India from olden times, has lead to the mobility of the students to the foreign countries either for quality or affordable education. Educational marketing can be defined as a planned and systematic two-way process of communication between an educational institution and its stakeholders designed to build morale, goodwill, understanding and support for that organization. The outcomes are usually goodwill, positive attitudes, respect, understanding and basic support. A developing country like India can use educational marketing as per its requirements. Therefore, this paper deals with two aspects in higher education in India. It tries to build a case for the need of decreasing outward student mobility and for more foreign students to be attracted to Indian higher education. To meet this purpose, the present study focuses light on the scenario of the higher education system worldwide and how economic globalization of higher education is shaping new horizons in the education sector. The present study details the statistics of student mobility world-wide and in India. The present study will also compare the composition and trends of exports of higher educational services by selected universities in Delhi, the capital and one of the metrocities of India. The present study is based upon the data collected from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of HRD, WTO publications, University Annual Reports and various journals and books published by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and the University Grants Commission (UGC).The three universities under study are the University of Delhi (DU), Jamia MiliaI slamia (JMI) and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). These universities are involved in globalization by admitting foreign students. DU and JMI offer regular and distance education courses in India, therefore foreign students come to these universities and take admission and study, whereas IGNOU has a different modus operandi. It has the partner institutions (PIs) all over the world in different countries. Students from those countries get enrolled through the PIs and pursue courses from IGNOU as it offers only distance courses. These universities in New Delhi have been chosen as Delhi is the capital of India and has two functional universities acclaimed worldwide and one open university of international repute, in order to understand how the various modes attract the foreign students; and these being publicly funded universities, how much impetus has been put on internationalization of higher education despite all required infrastructure being available with them for conducting the courses effectively and efficiently.

An appraisal of the importance of graduates’ language skills and ERASMUS experiences

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 355-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delfina Mattern
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
European Regional

This article discusses the importance of graduates’ language skills and their European Regional Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (ERASMUS) experiences. The purpose of the research is to establish whether the potential benefits of ERASMUS participation for employability, particularly with regard to language skills, mean that organizations have a propensity to employ ex-ERASMUS students. The academic literature does not provide a conclusive answer regarding the specific benefits of student mobility participation. To test the claims that mobile students are statistically more employable on graduation, primary research was conducted on the perspectives of higher education institutions, businesses and students. The findings suggest that businesses do value language skills especially but put little emphasis on their origin.

scholarly journals Problematic Areas of Host University Support Services for Short-Term Mobility Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1030-1047
Author(s):  
Adriana Perez-Encinas ◽  
Jesus Rodriguez-Pomeda ◽  
Mikuláš Josek
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Student Services ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
University Support

The growing numbers of mobile students over the years made the provision of student services a key topic of interest for higher education institutions. In order to offer a better experience for international students, it is important to be aware of and assess their needs in relation to different sets of support services. The data used in this paper were gathered through the ESNsurvey 2016 project, a research venture focused on the experiences of participants in short-term student mobility in Europe. Responses were collected from 12,365 international students, who have participated in a short-term (3-12 months) study period abroad mostly through Europe’s most promoted mobility program called ERASMUS+. For the purpose of this paper, the focus was only on the aspect of host university support services. The comments of 2,012 students about their experiences were analyzed using a probabilistic methodology known as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). 

scholarly journals Using YouTube Videos to Promote Universities : A Content Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
AISDL
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Marketing Practice ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Promotional Video ◽  
The University

In today’s global higher education environment, international students represent not only an important source of external income for universities: the degree of cross-border student mobility also reflects the internationalization of higher education sector. Universities have engaged in efforts to sell themselves to prospective students and promotional videos are among the most widely used marketing tools for this purpose. This study reports the results of a study analyzing the content of 140 higher education promotional videos from 14 countries available on YouTube. The results reveal that while the pattern of use of YouTube for two-waycommunication with viewers, information contents and appeal messages among sampled universities is fairly homogenous, some marked differences emerge when cultural background and global position ranking of the university are taken into account. The implications of these findings are that, although, transnational higher education has been profoundly globalized, culture still plays a significant role in marketing practice for the recruitment of mobile students. In addition, different universities have various student-targeted segments. These findings provide the basis of a series of recommendations for universities looking to optimize their use of YouTube and promotional video design to market to international students.

Strengthening Mobility for Better Learning

2015 ◽  
Vol 220-221 ◽  
pp. 1014-1017
Author(s):  
Algirdas Vaclovas Valiulis ◽  
Vytautas Bučinskas ◽  
Eligijus Toločka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Education ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
The World ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
International Activities ◽  
International Openness

In a modern environment, during the evolution of international activities, from mobility to international education hubs, universities are searching for new internationalization tools to implement those undertakings more effectively in terms of finance and time. Co-operation with other regions of the world and international openness are the key factors in the development of the European Higher Education Area. To illustrate the situation arising from student mobility of studying technological sciences, the paper analyses information about student mobility in the fields of mechanical engineering and mechatronics for the period 2009–2013.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BOLOGNA SYSTEM PRINCIPLES: COMPARISON OF EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE

Chelovek RU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 304-310
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Lbova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
State Control ◽  
Organizational Issues ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Formation History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This paper compares the European and Russian experience of reforms in the field of higher education, through the formation history of the Bologna system. Considerable attention is paid not only to the de-scription of the structural reform’s essence, but also to the EHEA project, as an example of the implemen-tation of the global trend that is about the availability of higher education in the world. Differences be-tween the Russian and European experience lie both in the degree of implementation of reforms and in the nature of state control over their realization. In Russia, the principles of the Bologna system are im-plemented nominally due to external structural changes, while in Europe it was possible to achieve an increase in the level of student mobility and make education more accessible by giving to many universi-ties the autonomy right in solving organizational issues.

scholarly journals O ENSINO SUPERIOR EM CABO VERDE E OS DESAFIOS DO PROCESSO DE BOLONHA

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Elvira Gomes dos Reis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
Cabo Verde ◽  
Enseñanza Superior ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The World ◽  
Bologna Agreement

Este artigo evidencia os esforços de aproximação do Ensino Superior de Cabo Verde ao Acordo de Bolonha. Visa revisitar alguns passos dados neste sentido, problematizar a importância de uma competência bi/plurilingue, hoje e no contexto da globalização, partindo do pressuposto que ela é o motor da internacionalização das competências e, consequentemente, de realização pessoal e social à escala global, visto que ela tem o poder de fomentar a mobilidade e facilitar a intercompreensão, promover a valorização de identidades e culturas e promover o sucesso do ensino superior, através do acesso a todo o conhecimento científico disponibilizado em outras línguas, alargando a sua visão do mundo e facilitando a internacionalização das suas competências.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Bolonha; bi/plurilinguismo;  internacionalização; Ensino Superior.     ABSTRACT This article highlights the efforts of the Cape Verde Higher Education approach to the Bologna Agreement. Aims to visit the steps taken in this direction, problematize the importance of a bi/ multilingualism competence, today and in the context of globalization, assuming that it is the motor of the internationalization of competences and, consequently, of personal and social fulfillment on a global scale, since it has the power to foster mobility and facilitate inter-comprehension, to promote the enhancement of identities and cultures, and to encourage educational success. It allows the student to access all the scientific knowledge available in other languages, allowing him/her to broaden his/her view of the world, facilitating the internationalization of his/her skills.   KEYWORDS:  Bologna; bi / plurilingualism; internationalization; Higher education.     RESUMEN Este artículo evidencia los esfuerzos de acercamiento de la Enseñanza Superior de Cabo Verde al Acuerdo de Bolonia. Se pretende revisar algunos pasos dados en este sentido, problematizar la importancia de una competencia bi / plurilingüe, hoy y en el contexto de la globalización, partiendo del supuesto de que es el motor de la internacionalización de las competencias y, consecuentemente, de realización personal y social a escala global, ya que tiene el poder de fomentar la movilidad y facilitar la intercomprensión, promover la valorización de identidades y culturas y promover el éxito de la enseñanza superior, a través del acceso a todo el conocimiento científico disponible en otras lenguas, ampliando su visión del mundo y facilitando la internacionalización de sus competencias.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Bolonha; bi / plurilingüismo; internacionalización; Enseñanza superior.  

scholarly journals International Student Mobility

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Bista ◽  
Ghanashyam Sharma ◽  
Uttam Gaulee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Simple Logic

Student mobility has increasingly become a key issue of policy and practice in higher education. This chapter presents a set of critical views about international student mobility globally, setting the context for emerging voices and critical lenses. The authors argue that educators should look into the bigger picture of mobility to understand its complex and multifaceted issues which go beyond counting enrollment numbers. Where do students go to study and why? Where do they come from and who was able to leave home? What obstacles do students face and how do they overcome them? There are some of the central questions of student mobility discourse. In this backdrop, the authors argue that students must be treated fairly by the simple logic of reciprocity: international students are “international” in the host countries in the same way as study abroad students will be “international” by default in the receiving countries. The only question is whether we are ready to accept a humane world where mobile students are valued as part of a global community and for global good, rather than just viewed in terms of mercenary drives of the market.

scholarly journals The changing map of international student mobility

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Peters ◽  
Stephanie Hollings ◽  
Man Zhang ◽  
Eric Atta Quainoo ◽  
Hejia Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Diverse Background ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

This article presents fifteen essays following a prompt on the changing map of international student mobility through three disruptions, namely Brexit, America First and COVID-19. These essays written by postgraduate students at Beijing Normal University were collected during the Spring semester of 2020 and edited by Stephanie Hollings and Zhang Man under the supervision of Professor Michael Peters. The fifteen texts, written in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlight the many factors and faces of the changing map of international student mobility from fifteen different perspectives. The world map is a key aspect of these essays as it is not only important as a geographical concept but as a discourse of knowledge, power, identity and ideas that will be reflected in each student’s interpretation of international student mobility. Each student draws on their own diverse background and lived experiences, some as Chinese students and some as international students in China, to give light to these disruptions through the eyes of ‘globally mobile’ students, making an important contribution to global discussions on international student mobility. These students, reflecting on being in the midst of a pandemic spreading across the world map, imagine the future post-COVID-19 and how that will interplay with the other two major student mobility disruptions of recent years (Brexit and America First) to impact international student mobility, international education, the ever-changing map of international student mobility and the discourse that comes from that changing map.

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