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  1. Reconceptualising international academic mobility in the global

    The term 'international academic mobility' is defined with ambiguity in the existing literature. Some scholarships use relevant concepts such as scientific mobility, academic mobility, faculty mobility, researcher mobility, and student mobility (Robinson-Garcia et al., 2019) to denote a similar idea about what we define as 'international academic mobility' in this article.

  2. The Reasons for International Student Mobility

    In order to understand the reasons and motivations for student mobility, we can learn from a broader phenomenon—migration (e.g., González, Mesanza, & Mariel, 2011)—which can be viewed at both the macro and the micro-levels. Macro-level signifies tracing large populations globally (nation, society, etc.)—for example, political situations in a particular region or state, laws and ...

  3. A World on the Move: Trends in Global Student Mobility

    New Special Report: A World on the Move. A World on the Move highlights key developments currently influencing student mobility in higher education in the United States and globally. Drawing upon Open Doors, Project Atlas and other sources of global data, the analysis points to a continuing demand for an international higher education in many parts of the world.

  4. International Student Mobility: Approaches, Challenges and Suggestions

    International, academic mobility of students can be virtual (computer-mediated, long-distance) or physical (also called spatial or geographical). From the point of view of socio-politics, ISM can be inward (into a country) or outward (out of a country). All these types of mobility’s are educational processes, of course, but they often ...

  5. PDF "The Importance of Student Mobility, Academic Exchange and

    overall, the academic mobility of young people has increased by over 50% since 2000. For example, increased 2.0% in 2007/08 and 3% in 2008/2009 to undergraduate level, reaffirming the importance of international academic experiences acquired in the last decade and the trend indicates will strengthen in the coming years.

  6. Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and

    Migration, academic mobility and class. This paper contributes to the recent rejuvenated discussion on class in migration studies, well accounted and elaborated in the interventions made by Kelly (Citation 2012) and Van Hear (Citation 2014).Though arguably having receded from the dominant place in social analyses during the past two decades of 'cultural turn', class or social-economic ...

  7. Prospects for International Students amid Rebounding Global Mobility

    The paper will provide an overview of the global mobility flows to and from major world regions in the 2019/2020 academic year. The paper will then consider the effects of COVID‐19 on global student mobility and how the pandemic has comparatively affected international students and the countries that serve as their hosts.

  8. International student mobility and its broad impact on destination

    The literature on international student mobility (ISM) has recently proliferated across diverse fields, reflecting its multifaceted connections with higher education institutions, business, and industry. ... Lima MC, Borini FM, et al. (2018) International academic mobility and innovation: a literature review. Journal of Global Mobility 6(3/4 ...

  9. Changes in International Student Mobility amid the COVID-19 ...

    International student mobility is an important indicator of the internationalization of higher education, and an important way to cultivate talents with global has had a huge impact on the mobility of international students. Specifically, the scale of international student mobility has decreased, changes in the geographic pattern of international student mobility have intensified, the form of ...

  10. (Pdf) Academic Mobility, Globalisation and Cosmopolitanism: Views From

    The article questions whether the fundamental purpose of promoting academic mobility is really to create a modern 'cosmopolitan' or to expand the 'industry' of higher education (HE) in general and ...

  11. The many facets of academic mobility and its impact on scholars' career

    In this paper, we have identified and explored many facets of academic mobility of males and females that relate to 1) mobility differences across nationalities, disciplines, and career stages, 2) the international mobility flow 3) the factors that associate with mobility, 4) relationship between mobility and scholars' publications and ...

  12. Academic Mobility as Freedom in Africa

    ABSTRACT. In this article, complexities in the relationship between academic mobility and freedom evident in Africa showing high levels of mobility but frustrations with the realisation of academic freedom are discussed. A distinction between negative, positive and epistemic dimensions of freedom helps us to analyse conditions for academic ...

  13. Student Mobility: How It Affects Learning

    Student Mobility: How It Affects Learning. A growing body of research suggests collecting data on student mobility can help identify vulnerable students and keep them on a path to academic ...

  14. Full article: Education and social mobility: possibilities

    Education and social mobility: possibilities, reproductive structures, discourse and materiality. Laura Engel, Claire Maxwell, ... The fourth article of this issue examines the kinds of academic support that high-achieving secondary school students from low-income households, many of whom are also from migrant backgrounds in Sweden received ...

  15. PDF The Impact of Student Mobility on Learning

    Student mobility can both positively and negatively affect student's academic and social behavior. Grades can drop, behaviors can change, and in some cases students can even drop out of school. My research found that a fluid education is important to students. Talking to the children about the move is also important. Making sure that the move is

  16. Academic Mobility and International Academics

    After positioning myself as a researcher on academic mobility and a mobile academic, I describe the international mobile experience from preparing to travel to returning home. Based on personal reflections, the chapter shares the challenges that early-career academics might confront and offers strategies to enjoy meaningful experiences in short ...

  17. Writing in the Context of Academic Mobility

    A great number of investigations are devoted to the methods of studying academic writing, particularly the system of teaching essay writing has been grounded (Yusupova, 2015), the factors influencing the formation of an academic writing competence are studied, digital technologies that can be used for this are considered (Strobl C., Ailhaud E ...

  18. Main challenges to international student mobility in the ...

    This 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 ...

  19. PDF Essays in Education, Mobility and Political Economy

    ture on mobility in developing countries. We note that the scarcity of panel data has hindered the measurement of mobility for many countries. We pay particular attention to the recent development of panel-free mobility measures, which allows us to measure upward mobility in 147 countries. We use these measures to revisit

  20. Mobility Essay Examples

    Mobility Essays. The Dynamics of Social Class: Socialization, Mobility, and Academic Achievement. Introduction The examination of social class in America is a complicated investigation into the processes that sustain and uphold divisions among classes. In the documentary "People Like Us: Social Class in America," the section titled "Don ...

  21. Academic mobility center

    The Academic mobility center supports more than 25 international projects and receives mutual interest from governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions in "Mobility Passport". The partnership networks is strengthening by partnerships with the U.S., Canadian, the UK, German,, Taiwan and Cambodian embassies to Russia.

  22. The Link Between Education and Social Upward Mobility: Some ...

    Education is the cornerstone in the sustainability of any society and it has played a pivotal role in uplifting the socioeconomic standard of individuals across the globe (Brown et al. 2013; Arifin 2017).The primary aim of education is to sustain individuals and their social well-being (Turkkahraman 2012), but the inequalities that emerge between rural and urban areas have tainted the noble ...