International Mobility Data Sources

By Nick Clark, Editor World Education News & Reviews The number of students crossing international borders to attend institutions of higher education has grown significantly in the last few decades, as have the number of reports that track those trends, both at the national level…

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Who Counts What in the Top English-language Host Countries?

By Nick Clark, Editor World Education News & Reviews In the first of this two-part series, we take a look behind the mobility statistics reported by the top five English-language higher education receiving countries to see if their data are directly comparable. We outline which…

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International Student Mobility: Patterns and Trends

By Line Verbik, Research Manager, Hobsons and Veronica Lasanowski, Research Officer, The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education Over the past 10-15 years international student mobility has become an increasingly important part of the global higher education landscape. The total number of mobile tertiary education students…

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University Rankings: New Zealand

Performance-Based Research Funding (PBRF) Traditionally, government research funding at postsecondary institutions has been distributed based on enrollments of equivalent full-time students. This system is currently being phased out in favor of performance-based funding, similar to Britain’s Research Assessment Exercise, through an evaluation and funding system…

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