International Student Mobility: Global and Commonwealth Perspectives

International Student Mobility: Global and Commonwealth Perspectives

When

02 April 2014    
All Day

Where

School of Education, University of Glasgow
University Avenue , Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Event Type

Council for Education in the Commonwealth presents:

International Student Mobility: Global and Commonwealth Perspectives

2 April 2014

School of Education, University of Glasgow

Conference themes

To celebrate Glasgow’s hosting of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, CEC will hold its 2014 Regional Conference at the University of Glasgow, hosted by The Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change and CRADALL. The conference will explore:

  • International and Commonwealth student mobility in global, UK and Scottish contexts;
  • Experiences of, and direct/indirect benefits of mobility for students, institutions and countries;
  • National and institutional strategies to attract international students;
  • Integrating student and programme mobility.

Background: Globally, international student mobility is growing fast, with 4 million students registered for advanced courses outside their home country. Commonwealth member states are major players in this movement, as sending and receiving societies.  Nearly 40 per cent of non-EU international students in UK universities are from elsewhere in the Commonwealth.

The Conference will review trends in international and Commonwealth student mobility, before examining their implications for the UK in general and for Scotland and its HE institutions in particular. At issue is how patterns of mobility, the student experience and outcomes, within a range of Commonwealth environments, differ from those observed in other settings.

Conference Programme