BOOK Chapter, September 2021 - Student Migrants and Contemporary Educational Mobilities by J Waters & R Brooks

Title:

Student Migrants and Contemporary Educational Mobilities

 

Authors:

Johanna Waters, Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK

Rachel Brooks, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

 

Cite this chapter:

Waters J., Brooks R. (2021) Student Migrants and Contemporary Educational Mobilities. In: Student Migrants and Contemporary Educational Mobilities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78295-5_1

 

ISBN of book:

978-3-030-78294-8

 

Abstract:

This book brings together work in the social sciences—geography, sociology, education studies and cognate disciplines—to explore questions associated with the meaning and significance of international student migrations. The essential context to this discussion includes changes to higher education and its institutions wrought through ‘internationalisation’. The book explores the meanings of the internationalisation of higher education in relation to the mobilities of students, and is structured around six key themes: changes in the geographies of student mobilities; socio-economic diversification in mobile students; the differential value of international higher education; migration, citizenship and state-building projects; learning and classroom experiences; and ethics and international student mobility.

 

The futures of cooperation in European governance: Brexit and the European knowledge policies [Scholarly Article - European Journal of Education, 2021]

Title:

The futures of cooperation in European governance: Brexit and the European knowledge policies

 

Author:

Amélia Veiga

Published:

European Journal of Education, 5 March 2021

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejed.12445

 

Abstract:

This paper analyses the purposes of cooperation as they challenge the European governance of higher education. Using Brexit to analyse meanings of cooperation and conveying secondary data analysis of ten case studies undertaken in the framework of the exploratory research project titled Brexit and higher education in the UK and Europe: Towards a cross‐country investigation, this study identifies a plurality of meanings of cooperation. These meanings resonate within the scenarios of Europe 2025 traced by the European Commission. In the scenarios (1) nothing but the single market, (2) doing less more efficiently, (3) those who want more do more, the different meanings of cooperation put at risk the future of cooperation driven by academic values and beliefs at the core of the Europeanisation of knowledge policies. Ultimately, the paper underlines that cooperation as a driver of the internationalisation of higher education questions the role of national openness and/or closure in framing shared European interests and the value of international cooperation.

 

Academic freedom is under threat around the world - here's how to defend it (by Eva Pils, King's College London & Marina Svensson, Lund University)

Title:

Academic freedom is under threat around the world - here's how to defend it

 

Author:

Eva Pils, Professor of Law, King's College London

Marina Svensson, Professor of Modern China Studies, Lund University

Published:

The Conversation, 7 October 2020

https://theconversation.com/academic-freedom-is-under-threat-around-the-world-heres-how-to-defend-it-118220

From the article:

Academic freedom is at the heart of successful universities. UNESCO defines it as the right “to freedom of teaching and discussion, freedom in carrying out research and disseminating and publishing results”. Academics have pointed out that it also means self-governance and security of academic jobs to ensure independence.  

 

Yet in the current climate, academic freedom is under threat everywhere. Not only do some countries perpetrate direct attacks on students and scholars. But the internationalisation of higher education has also created new global threats for both scholars and students.

Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), UK - WEEKEND READING: The Covid-19 pandemic and internationalisation of higher education: International students’ knowledge, experiences and wellbeing

Title:
WEEKEND READING: The Covid-19 pandemic and internationalisation of higher education: International students’ knowledge, experiences and wellbeing

Authors:
Padmore Adusei Amoah, Research Assistant Professor & Professor Ka Ho Mok, Chair Professor, both of Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Published:
Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), 13 June 2020
https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2020/06/13/weekend-reading-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-internationalisation-of-higher-education-international-students-knowledge-experiences-and-wellbeing/

From the article:
Internationalisation of education is facing unprecedented challenges when the world is presently confronted with the Covid-19 pandemic. Well before the current global health crisis, growing concerns have been raised about the value and benefits that international education brings to different social groups. Critics against internationalization of education claim the phenomenon favours only the elites in society and disadvantages groups with low socioeconomic status. In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, this argument is even more critical. Leading scholars in the field of international higher education believe a broad-based crisis for higher education globally is emerging, and one major consequence is intensive inequality and incertitude in the post-pandemic period. To prepare well for the unpredictable future that lies ahead, there is the need to understand the gaps in current support systems for students involved and the implications for internationalizing higher education.