International Student Mobility Study. Annotated Bibliography. (original) (raw)

2003, Ruiz-Gelices, E., King, R. and Findlay, A. M. (2003) 'International Student Mobility Study. Annotated Bibliography'. Brighton: Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex.

This Annotated Bibliography on international student mobility is the first output of a study sponsored by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE), the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and a range of other stakeholder organisations into the phenomenon of the international mobility of UK-based students. The research study runs from 1 May 2003 to 30 April 2004, and soon will be collecting a range of primary and secondary data on the scale and trends of different types of student mobility in the UK Higher Education system. The need for such a study has been identified in response to wider concerns about the level of UK student mobility in comparison to mobility trends in other EU countries, and whether this difference is significant and puts UK students at a disadvantage. This Bibliography has been one of our main tasks during the first two months of research. It is structured around six key research questions which guide the overall study. Under each question, several dozen references are listed alphabetically; more than 300 in all. Each reference is followed by a summary. Allocating individual references to each key question has not been an exact process since the questions themselves are closely interrelated and overlapping, and the content of many references, perhaps the majority in fact, cannot be easily pigeon-holed. Nevertheless, the division and allocation process was thought to be worthwhile in order to structure the bibliographic resource and to avoid an endless listing of very diverse material. The core literature on UK international student mobility is rather small. However, the available literature expands exponentially as the boundaries defining the phenomenon and its various contexts are themselves extended into cognate realms such as skilled migration, brain drain, graduate employment and mobility, institutional frameworks, related language issues, and policy. The Bibliography presented here is a constantly evolving research tool, and will be constantly refined and added to over the life of the research project. Needless to say, information about sources we have overlooked will be very welcome.