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…
Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews The mobility of students and academics across borders has become big business in recent years, and authorities in receiving countries have become increasingly efficient in tracking and reporting the data surrounding their education-export industries. Yet, the comparison…
Sophia J. Lowe, Research & Policy Analyst, World Education Services Introduction Globally, international student mobility has increased substantially. In 2006, over 2.9 million tertiary students were enrolled outside their country of citizenship, representing a 3 percent increase from the previous year in total foreign student…
Timothy Owen & Sophia J. Lowe, World Education Services, Canada This is an abridged and slightly modified version of the Canada country report written by Timothy Owen and Sophia J. Lowe for UNESCO’s Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Education: Quality Assurance and Mutual recognition…
By Lloyd Armstrong, University Professor, University of Southern California Modularization is critical to the success of industrial globalization because it enables global maximization of the production process by utilizing “best” producers of different modules. There are certainly components of cross-border higher education that can be…