scholarly journals Intranational University Student Mobility: A Case Study of Student Migration and Graduate Retention in Eastern Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Dale Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
International Student ◽  
Graduation Rate ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
University Studies ◽  
Survey Responses

While international student mobility has received much examination, intranational student mobility is a lesser-studied area. Data shows that residents of the four Easternmost Canadian provinces are more likely to travel outside of their home province to undertake university studies than other Canadians. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Memorial University of Newfoundland experienced a near ten-fold increase in the enrolment of students from the three nearby Maritime provinces. Previous study of this enrolment trend indicated that the increase was partially driven by Memorial’s lower tuition fees. Guided by the conceptual lenses of student choice frameworks, tuition price sensitivity analyses, and student migration studies, this study was carried out to examine the persistence and graduation rates of the 2010 Maritime student cohort, where they resided following their university studies, and factors influencing their decisions to stay or leave Newfoundland and Labrador. This research primarily relied on university administrative records and participant survey responses. The results showed that almost 40% of the 2010 Maritime student cohort had dropped out two years after their initial enrolment at Memorial and by the sixth year, their graduation rate (45%) was far below the overall graduation rate for Canadian students in undergraduate degree programs (74%). In addition, almost 78% of those who were successfully surveyed in autumn 2020 were no longer residing in Newfoundland and Labrador. While there are limitations to the interpretation of the results, they raise important questions about tuition fee polices and their connection (or not) to population growth.

scholarly journals Three Levels of Push-Pull Dynamics Among Chinese International Students’ Decision to Study Abroad in the Canadian Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Mian Chen
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Chinese International Students ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
The Individual

The extant literature on student migration flows generally focus on the traditional push-pull factors of migration at the individual level. Such a tendency excludes the broader levels affecting international student mobility. This paper proposes a hybrid of three levels of push-pull dynamics (micro−individual decision-making, meso−academic marketing, and macro−national marketing) to paint a more accurate picture of student migration flows. A case study of 15 semi-structured interviews with Chinese international students at a Canadian university was conducted to illuminate the underresearched reality that universities and Canada as a nation offer additional incentives, in conjunction with individual/familial reasons, for study abroad. The paper concludes with recommendations for new research directions arising from the present study.

scholarly journals International opportunities : searching for the meaning of student migration

2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Findlay ◽  
A. Stam ◽  
R. King ◽  
E. Ruiz-Gelices
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

Abstract. This paper explores aspects of the geography of international Student migration. By listening to the voices of British students we make a methodological contribution in terms of extending understanding of the intentions and values of Student migrants as developed over their life course. On the one hand, students stressed the social and cultural embeddedness of their actions, while on the other hand interviews with university staff and mobility managers pointed to the existence of other social structures that shape the networks of mobility that are available to students. Policy makers seeking to re-shape the geography of international Student mobility need to address the deeper socio-cultural forces that selectively inhibit movement although European integration processes have long paved the way for international living and work experience.

International Student Migration: Regional Aspect

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-121
Author(s):  
A. Vartanyan
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Students ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
The World

The article provides a profound analysis of the main trends of international student migration for tertiary education, discusses the key factors influencing the choice of destination for studying abroad, and reveals the regional peculiarities of instruments for student migration regulation. The first part of the paper highlights the official statistics showing that in recent decades the world witnessed the steady increase in the number of international students, concentrating mainly in the USA and the European Union. Almost 48% of all international students in the world study in the European Union. This region also shows the highest internal student mobility. Among others, such countries as Austria, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand demonstrate the biggest shares of foreign students in the total number of university students. As for donor countries, the dynamics proves the major role of the Asia region, with a half of all international students originated from it. The largest number of foreign students come from China, India and South Korea. Nonetheless, the Asia region becomes a popular destination of student mobility nowadays. The second part of the article concerns different coordination policies of tertiary migration in the regional context. Mostly in developed countries, practices of attracting foreign students to study in professional programs and degree programs with a perspective to enter a national labor market after graduation become more and more popular. Postgraduate migration remains a priority. Most countries encourage job-searching for foreign graduate students, as they are considered to have a high-skill level, international views and an opportunity to live and work in a variety of socio-cultural conditions. Further analysis refers to the main factors determining the choice of destination for foreign students, which are: geographical proximity, language skills, cultural proximity, the cost of education, and a country's reputation in the field of higher education. The paper reveals the leading role of the EU in the developed intraregional educational mobility, the regional asymmetry of migration processes in other regions of the world, and Asian countries actively promoting temporary educational and labor migration to developed countries with incentives to return to a home-country in the future. In recent years, due to positive dynamics of the return migrants number, an interest in the creation of the returnees strategy grows as well as desire of developed and developing countries to benefit most from the return migration.

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.

International Students in Chinese Higher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 153-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Hu ◽  
Christine Min Wotipka ◽  
Wen Wen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Chinese Higher Education ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Political Economic

The authors examine the choices, expectations, and experiences of international students in China, aiming to understand emerging reverse student flows and the role of political, economic and cultural factors in international student mobility. Data were drawn from survey responses by 1674 international students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and North America studying at eight Chinese universities. Findings suggest significant differences among students' choices, experiences, and expectations by their region of origin. In a broader context, this research addresses the important role of developing countries as not only senders but also receivers of international students, and demonstrates ways that political, economic and cultural structures influence international students' choices, experiences and expectations. This research on international education in China contributes to the study of regionalization and internationalization of higher education.

Institutional Asymmetry Regarding Inbound and Outbound Student Migration

2016 ◽  
pp. 68-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Starr-Glass
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
International Study ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Dramatic Growth

During the last twenty years there has been a dramatic growth in international student mobility. These students face multiple challenges in adapting to their new country, its culture, and its educational system. To some extent, these experiences are faced by all international students whether they are participating in short-term study abroad experiences (outbound), or in extended sojourns in a foreign country (inbound). However, whereas outbound students usually receive institutional guidance and support, inbound students often receive little or none. The asymmetric institutional awareness of, and response to, international students adversely impacts those who are inbound. Asymmetric ways of understanding and recognizing international students also limit colleges in optimizing the potentials of international study and constrain their efforts in becoming comprehensively internationalized institutions. This chapter explores the negative consequences of asymmetrical understandings of international student migration and recommends ways in which they might be mitigated.

scholarly journals Adverse articulation: Third countries in China–Australia student migration during COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Østbø Haugen ◽  
Angela Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Risk Of Infection ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
International Student Mobility ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

Southeast Asian countries were articulated with the Australia–China value chain for educational services early in the COVID-19 outbreak, when travelers from China could enter Australia only via stopovers in third countries. The routes, advertised by migration brokers, allowed Australia to externalize risk of infection while profiting from international student mobility.

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