Dear All,
Please find below details of a Workshop on International Student
Mobilities, to be held at the University of Surrey on Tuesday, 24th June
2008. All are welcome.
Regards,
Rachel Brooks
International Student Mobilities: a workshop
Tuesday, 24th June 2008
To be held at the University of Surrey in Room 32 MS 03
International students are an increasingly visible presence within higher
education in many countries, including the UK, and the recent trend in
overseas study is widely predicted to continue. Research has begun to
acknowledge this, addressing the international mobility of students as
part of a wider interest in the transnational migration of highly skilled
workers in a global knowledge economy. Most of this work, however,
describes a limited pattern of student mobility – from non-English
speaking to English-speaking countries, from East to West, and from
developing to advanced economies. Very little attention has been paid to
students who move from advanced English-speaking countries to pursue their
studies overseas. This workshop seeks to address this significant gap in
extant knowledge through an examination of the motivations and experiences
of the increasing numbers of UK students and graduates choosing a foreign
education.
Programme
1.30pm Registration and coffee
2.00pm Welcome and introductions
2.15pm ‘International Higher Education and the Mobility of UK Students’
Dr Rachel Brooks (University of Surrey) and Dr Johanna Waters (University
of Liverpool)
2.45pm 'UK students' outward mobility: insights from three projects'
Prof Russell King (Department of Geography and Sussex Centre for Migration
Research, University of Sussex)
3.15pm Discussion of papers and their policy implications. Chair: Prof
Mary Stuart (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Kingston University)
4.15pm Tea
Places at the workshop are free. If you would like to attend, please
contact Rachel Brooks ([log in to unmask]).
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