scholarly journals Staying for the benefits: Location‐specific insider advantages for geographically im mobile students in higher education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Mærsk ◽  
Jens F.L. Sørensen ◽  
Annette A. Thuesen ◽  
Tialda Haartsen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Students

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 INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION BASED ON LEAN MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES: CASE STUDY OF JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Iryna Myhovych ◽  
Vitalii Kurylo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
University Management ◽  
Bilateral Agreements ◽  
Process Indicators ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Internationalisation Of Higher Education ◽  
Erasmus Programme ◽  
Polish Higher Education

  The paper deals with the phenomenon of lean management in higher education analyzed within the context of internationalisation process in Polish higher education as a means of ensuring inclusive global higher education space. Lean management is looked upon as one of the 21st century models of university management transplanted from the sphere of private enterprises and business companies’ management. The empirical analysis has been conducted with the use of statistical data provided by the official website of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Republic of Poland. The data have been collected in accordance with the following internationalisation process indicators: amount of bilateral Memoranda of Understanding; Inbound Mobility: number of foreign students who have completed the full cycle bachelor's / master's degree; Inbound Mobility: number of foreign students who have completed the full cycle PhD’s degree; Inbound Mobility: participation in Quin Jadwiga Fund granting schemes; Inbound Mobility: participation in Erasmus / Erasmus+ Programme; Outbound Mobility: participation in Erasmus / Erasmus+ Programme; number of outbound mobile students in accordance with bilateral agreements; number of inbound mobile students in accordance with bilateral agreements; number of outbound mobile staff in accordance with bilateral agreements; number of inbound mobile staff in accordance with bilateral agreements. The collected data have shown gradual increase of internationalisation process indicators and allowed concluding that the introduction and support of lean management principles in higher education promotes the intensification of the internationalisation process. 

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.

Developing Global Competences through Learning Mobility

2015 ◽  
pp. 273-284
Author(s):  
Peter Finell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Global Competence ◽  
Host Institution ◽  
Exchange Students ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Internationalisation Of Higher Education ◽  
Practical Nature ◽  
Exchange Programmes

This chapter looks at the development of global competences during a study abroad experience from the perspective of a host institution to inbound students. It examines the concept of global competence how mobile students themselves regard their study abroad experience, and how the international experiences gained through learning mobility are valued by employers. Having found that exchange programmes such as Erasmus+ places obligations of a rather practical nature on the host institution, this chapter seeks to argue that the host institution should play a bigger role in enhancing the development of global competences of their inbound exchange students. The chapter relies heavily upon the recent Erasmus Impact Study entitled “ The Effects of mobility on the skills and employability of students and the internationalisation of higher education institutions”, published by the European Commission in September 2014 as well as other similar studies and the latest doctrine in the field.

Prophesying success in the higher education system of multilingual Switzerland

Multilingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-320
Author(s):  
Martina Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Education System ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Mobile Students ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Analytical Dimension

AbstractThis paper investigates the conditions under which stakeholders in the higher education system in multilingual Switzerland link expectations of students’ future economic to the development of human capital. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in a project focusing on mobile students crossing linguistic borders within Switzerland, I examine how this expected success in the imagined future is conceptualized, i. e. what kind of learning and which multilingual repertoires are part of the prophesying marketing discourse produced by universities and students alike. I explore how dominant language ideologies are reproduced and transferred into a speculative future, without any adjustment to account for changing market conditions. Juxtaposing institutional and individual discourse, I first argue that understandings of language ideologies are shared, seen as promotional assets translatable into the imagined but unchallenged future of which students as well as universities have a joint vision. Second, I suggest that investigating dominant visions of the future sheds light on which languages are chosen to be taught/learnt at tertiary level and how this offer mirrors the economized perspective adopted in the higher education system. Finally, I conclude that considering time as an analytical dimension contributes to our understanding of how prophesies of the multilingual (and thus marketable) self are discursively constructed in the here and now, and are dominated by certain interests, and I raise the question whether the successful visions we are striving for are ever to be reached in a neoliberal logic in line with the pressure of continuously becoming.

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