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Over the last 15 years, the government of Ontario, Canada began seeking ways to deliver and expand higher education in a more cost effective and sustainable manner through the introduction of two major policy goals: greater institutional differentiation and the expansion of student pathways. This paper will attempt to determine the compatibility of these two policy goals through a review of the relevant literature to determine if the policies are aligned from an efficiency and effectiveness, and public policy perspective. It will also identify a number of policy levers used in Ontario that may affect the extent of diversity and student pathways through document analysis, to assess their compatibility by making a limited use of the field of organisational theory as a lens to place the policies into context. It will also examine the extent to which various institutional types in Ontario have been engaged in student mobility and will compare and contrast the various strategies used to satisfy these public policy goals through textual analysis to highlight current successful institutional strategies that can be used by other jurisdictions. It will conclude with some key observations that the authors feel are necessary for either policy goal to succeed.

- by Pierre G Piché and +2
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- Diversity, Public Policy Analysis, Student Mobility, Ontario

À écouter les discours politiques, la mobilité internationale est favorisée par les États, elle constitue une richesse tant pour les pays de départ que d’arrivée. La promotion de ces politiques est faite à grand bruit 1, même si quelques distorsions surgissent ici ou là, quand la Grande-Bretagne fait payer le prix fort aux étudiants étrangers, par exemple. En France, Campus France est censé faire connaître l’enseignement supérieur à l’étranger, il régule les flux, construit des filtres (niveau académique, projet, langue, moyens financiers…) et donne le sésame sur des critères plus ou moins drastiques.

First generation international students are a harbinger for the coming wave of globally mobile students. This article describes the trends in the demographics, drivers, directions, and delivery of global higher education and uses analysis of the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG, 2015) to illustrate these trends in first-generation international students.

- by Peggy Gesing and +1
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- International Students, Social Class, Equity, Student Mobility

The USSR ceased to exist 28 years ago, and there are generations of young people who were born after the dissolution. Mobility opportunities are now abundant and easily available to them. Yet the Soviet past still shapes the post-Soviet present for citizens of countries of the former USSR. We interviewed eight young people from Belarus and Moldova who currently reside in the Netherlands and utilised grounded theory methodology to understand how they make sense of the Soviet past of their countries and how it influences them. While the post-Soviet young adults possess an internalised experience of reminiscences of Soviet times and have inherited certain patterns of thinking, communicating, and behaving, they are detached from Sovietness and express neither love nor hatred towards it. They locate themselves in a symbolic middle position in which they are critical both towards the Soviet legacy and 'the Western' alternatives, and the very transitional character of their position becomes the essence of it. The findings contribute to the body of scholarship on young adults' experiences in post-Soviet countries, and the evaluation and understanding of the Soviet experience. Furthermore, they assist in understanding current events as well as the trends and the mobility trajectories of post-Soviet young adults.

- by Ilya Malafei and +1
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- Cultural Memory, Post-Socialism, Moldova, Student Mobility

Abstract: The argument I will develop in this essay is that the foreign students are a latent human resource who can assist with overcoming English monolingualism in the Australian population. Foreign students, properly rewarded, can be a major source of skills transfer. Every one of those students is a walking compendium of language and cultural skills that Australians need to know.

- by Thorold (Thor) May
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- Discourse Analysis, Sociology, Psychology, Social Psychology

- by Thorold (Thor) May
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- Discourse Analysis, Sociology, Psychology, Social Psychology
- by Andrea Lynch
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- Literacy, Indigenous education, Student Mobility
- by Giulia Zornetta
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- Relational Database, Digital Humanities, Mobility/Mobilities, Academic Mobility

Report by the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, and the Centre for Applied Population Research, University of Dundee. Commissioned by HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW, DEL, DfES, UK Socrates Erasmus Council, HEURO, BUTEX and... more

Changes in school environments are sources of instability and stress for children. The social, educational, residential, and familial changes that usually accompany school changes are likely to exacerbate this stress and negatively impact academic performance. The full range of these changes that occur with school changes, and their relative effects on performance, have not been studied. Using administrative records documenting the educational histories of a representative sample of public school students, this study estimated the effect of mobility on academic grade point average, and the variation in this effect among different types of concurrent changes in children’s social, educational, residential, and familial environments, controlling for students’ prior achievement, personal characteristics, chronic absence from school, and school membership. Multilevel growth curve modeling was used to account for the nesting of annual measures within students and students within schools; cross-classification and multiple membership were used to account for all of the schools that students attended since beginning first grade. Overall each school change that a student experienced was associated with a deficit of 0.02 GPA points in the year of the change compared to similar students who had not changed schools. The study found greater declines in academic performance when students experienced changes in social, residential, and familial environments concurrent with school changes. Relatively stable school changes in which students moved with groups of peers, not triggered by changes in residence or specifically targeting individual students, had neutral effects on academic performance. Solo transfers, on the other hand, triggered by residential transfers with family structure change or financial issues, were negatively associated with academic performance; this negative effect was likely due to the loss of neighborhood and family stability in addition to the disruption of school-based social ties and academic routines. Further investigation is warranted into strategies to support students who are experiencing stress from changes that trigger school transfers, particularly those involving family structure changes or financial issues.

Student mobility has been a key component in the globalisation process for many years since it directly affects the educational experience of future employers and employees. Besides fostering knowledge, it also helps create an educational environment where more people have equal access to educational sources. This study intends to look at the past and possible future of student mobility. Student mobility programmes are examined as degree mobility, credit mobility and transnational education, following a brief history of
student mobility. Then, considering the fact that student mobility has also been called “multicultural education”, the student mobility process is analysed within
the framework of globalisation, communication technologies, and intercultural communication. The study concludes that as a result of the developments in
information and communication technologies, it is necessary to make various reforms in education policies as well as in politics, economics and socio-cultural politics so that student mobility can foster global cooperation and empowerment in the long run.

- by Seda Mengü
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- Intercultural Communication, Higher Education, Online Learning, Global education

Este Dossier presenta nueve trabajos que abordan distintas temáticas que son parte de las agendas actuales de investigación en las universidades iberoamericanas. Los textos de este monográfico ponen sobre la mesa discusiones apremiantes de la actualidad, nuevas tendencias y líneas de investigación, que contemplan discusiones sobre la movilidad estudiantil internacional en educación superior, así como dinámicas migratorias y de movilidad de científicos y científicas. Sobre este último aspecto, destacamos las dinámicas de internacionalización de la ciencia y las universidades según áreas disciplinares; estudios comparativos sobre políticas públicas para la repatriación de académicos y científicos; los modos en cómo opera el género en las trayectorias científicas, así como el análisis de las carreras en diversas etapas de la trayectoria académica (consolidados y en la etapa temprana de la carrera).

- by Patricia Jimena Rivero and +4
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- Mobility/Mobilities, Higher Education, Academic Mobility, Internationalization

The vexed and ongoing issue of poor educational outcomes for Indigenous students in the Northern Territory continues despite years of successive programs and policies. Much of the debate has been on funding and pedagogy, in particular the merits or otherwise of bi-lingual teaching. Largely omitted from discussions, although well known by teachers and schools in remote areas to be an issue, are high rates of in-term student mobility. Such “unexpected” moves are thought to affect the capacity for students to achieve benchmark outcomes, for teachers to deliver these and for schools to administer their students within the allocated systems and budgets. Up to now teachers and schools have relied on anecdotes to engage in dialogue around the impacts of mobility. This is because adequate conceptualisations for aggregating, depicting and reporting on the size and nature of in-term mobility were not available. This paper documents several years of work into producing these outcomes. Three measures are conceptualised and outlined in this paper which will be of interest to teachers, schools and educational administrators in all jurisdictions where services are delivered in a remote setting. The results clearly demonstrate the high churn of Indigenous students within terms, especially in remote areas of the Northern Territory. The findings from this study can be applied to inform funding and policy making and as a basis for further research to document the impacts for teachers and schools.

- by Andrew Taylor
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- Education, Indigenous Studies, Student Mobility, Northern Territory of Australia

Open enrolment policies assume that students living in disadvantaged areas can access better schools outside their neighbourhood. However, characteristics of individuals, quality of schooling and neighbourhood characteristics interact in... more

- by Rosario Scandurra and +2
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- Education, Segregation, Geo-spatial analysis with GIS and GPS, Geography Education

Séduits par la notoriété des universités françaises et la possibilité
d’y acquérir une première expérience professionnelle, Bader, Soufiane,
Yassine, Ali et Steeve ont été admis en France au terme d’une procédure
d’admission préalable sélective et discrétionnaire. Ils font l’expérience
de la vie d’étudiant et de travailleur étranger, caractérisée par des
conditions de vie souvent précaires et un droit au séjour incertain - une
situation rendue plus complexe avec la pandémie et la dématérialisation
des procédures. Regards croisés sur un statut administratif sous
contrôle, vécu comme un piège.

- by Hicham JAMID and +1
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- Labor Migration, International Migration, Migration Studies, Student Mobility
- by Jan Van Maele
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- Intercultural Communication, Project Management, Student Mobility, Non-Essentialism

Lucretius was the first philosopher of immanence. It is he and not Democritus or Epicurus who holds this title. If we want to understand the historical emergence of the concept of immanence, we should start by distinguishing its precursors in Greek atomism from its first complete incarnation in Lucretius. This way, we can see exactly what first defined and distinguished immanence from its past. Therefore in what follows I would like to make three, perhaps controversial, claims about the emergence of philosophical immanence. 1) Lucretius was not an atomist, 2) Greek atomism reintroduced transcendence, and 3) It is the primacy of motion in Lucretius that defines his philosophical immanence. Lucretius was not an atomist This thesis is as counterintuitive as it is straightforward. The first major difference between Lucretius and the earlier Greek atomists is precisely that—the atom. For Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus atoms are always in motion, but the atom itself remained fundamentally unchanged, indivisible, and thus internally static—even as it moved. Thus instead of positing discrete atoms as ontologically primary as both ancient Greek and later modern theories do, one of Lucretius's greatest novelties was to posit the movement or flow of matter as primary. Lucretius did not simply " translate Epicurus, " as the Greco-centric story goes; rather, he introduced the first immanent kinetic materialism in the West. For example, although the Latin word atomus (smallest particle) was available to Lucretius to use in his poem, he intentionally did not use it, nor did he use the Latin word particula or particle to describe matter. The English translations of " atom, " " particle, " and others have all been added to the text in translation based on a certain historical interpretation of it. The idea that Lucretius subscribed to a world of discrete particles called atoms is therefore both a projection of Epicureanism, who used the Greek word atomos, and a retroaction of modern scientific mechanism of the fifteenth century onto De Rerum Natura. Lucretius rejected entirely the notion that things emerged from discrete particles. To believe otherwise is to distort the original meanings of the Latin text as well as the absolutely enormous poetic apparatus he summoned to describe the flowing, swirling, folding, and weaving of the flux of matter. Although Lucretius rejected the term atomus, he remained absolutely true to one aspect of the original Greek meaning of the word, τομος (átomos, " indivisible "), from-(a-, " not ") + τέμνω (témnō, " I cut "). Being is not cut up into discrete particles, but is composed of continuous flows, folds, and weaves. Discrete " things " (rerum) are composed of corporeal flows (corpora) that move together (conflux) and fold over themselves (nexus) in a woven knot work (contextum). For Lucretius, things only emerge and have their being within and immanent to the flow and flux of matter in motion. Discreteness is an apparent product of continuous folded matter, uncut, undivided, and in motion and not the other way around.

- by Thomas Nail
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- Critical Theory, Religion, Ancient Egyptian Religion, New Religious Movements
- by Christine Arnold and +1
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- Higher Education, RPL/PLAR/APEL, Student Mobility, Credit Transfer

The ECTS Users’ Guide offers guidelines for implementing ECTS and links to useful supporting documents. Following the request from Bologna Ministers in Bucharest (Bucharest Communiqué, 2012), the ECTS Users’ Guide of 2009 has been revised, in order to strengthen the ‘meaningful implementation of learning outcomes’ in the EHEA. The Guide takes forward the objective of Ministers to ‘call on institutions to further link study credits with both learning outcomes and student workload and to include the attainment of learning outcomes in assessment procedures’.

Mots-clefs : Erasmus, mobilité, Français sur objectifs universitaires, Communication interculturelle, Interdidacticité Parole-chiave : Erasmus, mobilità, francese per scopi accademici, comunicazione interculturale, interdidatticità Keywords : Erasmus, mobility, French for Academic Purposes, Intercultural Communication, Crossdidactics Riassunto L’intervento ha come scopo di presentare alcune iniziative e studi di riferimento per la preparazione degli studenti Erasmus outgoing per il loro periodo di mobilità in Francia. Propone una base progettuale per la costituzione di un gruppo di lavoro interuniversitario su questa tematica che potrebbe produrre un sito per mutualizzare le risorse didattiche e condividere le ricerche-azioni nel campo. Abstract The intervention aims at presenting some initiatives and reference studies about the preparation of Erasmus outgoing students for their period of mobility in France. I shall propose some rationale for a project towards the constitution of an...

Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilities “elsewhere” and drawing heavily on his own European lifeworld, the author examines momentous travels abroad in the context of education, work, and spiritual quests and the search for a better quality of life.

- by Noel B. Salazar
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- European Studies, Anthropology, Anthropology of Tourism, Social Anthropology

La experiencia de internacionalización presentada surge a partir de la visita a la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos (FI-UNER) del Dr. E. Ferro en 2019 y la incorporación de su clase como invitado a la asignatura Biomateriales y Biocompatibilidad (carrera Bioingeniería). A partir de esta primera experiencia, en 2020 se formula e implementa una práctica profesional más integral para estudiantes de Farmacia de la Universidad de Northeastern focalizada en el intercambio académico, científico y cultural a la que se sumaron estudiantes y docentes de las asignaturas Inglés II y Laboratorio de Idiomas de la FI-UNER. De esta manera, se pretende propiciar el uso de la lengua española e inglesa para todos los grupos.

- by DIANA M WAIGANDT
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- Bioengineering, Education, English for Academic Purposes, Higher Education
- by Andrea Pelliccia
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- Higher Education, International Students, Student Mobility, Greece

The internationalisation of student cohorts at undergraduate and postgraduate levels poses challenges for students and tutors alike. This case study provides a qualitative analysis of some of the issues surrounding the international student experience of higher education in the UK in a large urban higher education institution, through the use of semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Based on the findings a number of recommendations are made to enable those who come to the UK from other educational backgrounds to adapt and make the transition necessary in order to enhance their experience of studying here. Rationale and Objectives of the Study

The article collates and presents a wide range of data on the international circulation of doctoral students and researchers belonging to the Brazilian historiographical community funded by the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education, through doctoral grants with international internship and post-doctoral grants. It analyzes the annual records of scholarships awarded from 1998 to 2017, observing how they changed over time and the annual percentage of scholarship holders abroad. It compares the total number of scholarships in History and in other disciplines. Lastly, it lists the main countries and institutions where these individuals studied. It notes that this discipline follows the same path as Brazilian science abroad.

- by Marlon Salomon
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- Historiography, Student Mobility, Brain Circulation, Circulations Internationales
- by Anouk Verschaeren
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- Anthropology, Identity (Culture), Student Mobility

The report brings together recent literature and data on student mobility. It looks at the trends in UK international students' mobility and compares these internationally. It also considers the causal factors for students' choice to spend time abroad, the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of mobile students, and the impact that time abroad has on their employability; and it highlights policy and practice in HEIs in respect of student mobility.

- by Jill Ahrens and +1
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- Language Education, Employability, Higher Education, International Education

Within the inclusive approach of mobility studies, migration has
been referred to as one of the most prominent forms of mobility.
However, discussing all migrants’ experiences as just
“mobile” experiences shadows the range and nuances of migration.
This paper argues and illustrates how migration can be
a form of mobility and also addresses migration as a much
nuanced form of mobility that has been rather silent in existing
literature. We examine one social condition that has informed
a range of international migrants’ experiences: their (re)organization
of gender patterns within the family on the basis of
transnational realities. We use a multi-scalar model of intersectionality
to conceptualise migratory movements as mobility,
particularly when the meaning is assigned to it on the basis of
power relationships. This way, we suggest a fruitful intersectional
analysis of migration and mobilities.

- by Viola Thimm
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- Gender Studies, Mobility/Mobilities, Migration mobilities, Anthropology of Mobility
- by Lotte Kosthorst
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- Prosopography, History of Universities, Social History, Student Mobility

We plan to publish a volume that foregrounds, explores and analyzes the multifarious cultural production that originates from the mobility of Chinese subjects across different countries and territories. We focus on different typologies of... more

- by valentina pedone
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- Travel Writing, Chinese Studies, Sinology, China

Mehrsprachigkeit gilt als Pfeiler der "Schweizer Identität". Universitäten halten sich in der Lehre jedoch ans Territorialitätsprinzip; Vorlesungen erfolgen in der lokal gesprochenen Sprache, was Studierende aus anderen Sprachregionen der Schweiz überfordern kann. Die Autorin ergründet, welcher Stellenwert der Sprache in Diskursen und Praktiken zukommt, die mit der intranationalen studentischen Mobilität über schweizerische Sprachregionen hinweg einher-gehen. Mittels einer Ethnographie erfasst und interpretiert sie, wie in der sich wandelnden Hochschullandschaft der Wunsch nach Mobilität kreiert und legitimiert wird und wie Mobilität und damit verbundene Herausforderungen bewältigt werden. Die soziolinguistischen Daten zeichnen ein komplexes Bild der aufeinander einwirkenden universitären Akteure in einem mehrsprachigen Land und erhellen exemplarisch das Spannungsfeld zwischen zelebrierter Mehrsprachigkeit und praktizierter " Einsprachigkeit " sowie daraus hervorgehende Ungleichheiten.

- by Martina Zimmermann
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- Ethnography, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Higher Education
- by Allan Findlay
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- Language Education, Employability, Higher Education, International Education

This case study focuses on the establishment of a new cooperative effort to accept a student enrolled at Middle East Technical University, Turkey who was nominated to Kagawa University, Japan under the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Program. At the time the student was nominated, Kagawa University did not have a suitable program in which to accept the student, but arrangements were made to be able to host the student. From this particular case, demands for inbound programs for international students became clear including the needs for the flexibility of arranging existing programs, the ability of providing content in English, the strong consideration towards student satisfaction, and the utilization of the Internet resources to share information. Close cooperation from the stakeholders was the key to the success of the initiative.

- by SDIWC Organization and +1
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- Erasmus, Student Mobility, Student Satisfaction, Language proficiency
- by Andrea Lynch
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Psychology, Literacy