Audio Files Available from IIE “Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility” Roundtable

To mark the release of their new book (with generous support from the AIFS Foundation) Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility, the Institute of International Education (IIE) held a roundtable discussion on May 5, 2009 on this topic. IIE has made the following audio files from the event available on their website:

Welcome
Allan E. Goodman, President and CEO, IIE AUDIO (mp3, 04:03)

Melanie French, Executive Director, AIFS Foundation AUDIO (mp3, 01:20)

Peggy Blumenthal, Executive Vice President, IIE AUDIO (mp3, 06:31)

Opening Remarks
Rajika Bhandari, Director, Research and Evaluation, IIE AUDIO (mp3, 08:46)
Sabine O'Hara, Executive Director, Council for International Exchange of Scholars and Vice President, IIE AUDIO (mp3, 08:24)

Discussion among Roundtable Participants
Discussion Part One AUDIO (mp3, 20:40)
Discussion Part Two AUDIO (mp3, 34:14)

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Germany a Top Destination for Chinese Students ~ The Chinese “Global Tribe” Revisited

The May 29, 2009 issue of News from DAAD New York provides some interesting data on the popularity of Germany as a study abroad destination for Chinese students with a link to a related article (in German) at the DAAD-magazin.de. I have copied and pasted the entire news bit from the DAAD here:

“Germany is the second most popular destination (after the United States) for Chinese students who have received national scholarships to study abroad. In 2008, 481 Chinese students awarded scholarships went to Germany, out of 4,892 award-winning students total. That's 9.8 percent of all scholarships. “

You can access the full article here.

I briefly touch on Chinese students in Germany in one of my first posts to IHEC Blog (9th post to be exact) entitled The Chinese “Global Tribe”. You can access that early post here.

Mobility Barometer of the Let’s Go Campaign

Those of you conducting research on global student/scholar mobility trends may find the Mobility Barometer on the Let’s Go Campaign to be helpful. The Mobility Barometer highlights the specific mobility situation for students and higher education and research personnel in 46 countries within the European region. You can access the Mobility Barometer here: http://tinyurl.com/5pnkoe

The Lets Go Campaign was launched by Education International and the European Students’ Union (ESU). You can access the main website for the Let’s Go Campaign here: http://www.letsgocampaign.net/

HEA of Ireland Encourages More Irish Students to Study Abroad

The Thursday, November 20th edition of The Irish Times published an interesting article on the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and their plans to encourage more Irish students to study abroad. According to the article, only 1,800 Irish students study abroad each year. You can access The Irish Times article here: http://tinyurl.com/62rhjk

You can read more about student study abroad trends of Irish students and related statistics in the Eurostudent Survey II: Irish Report on the Social and Living Conditions of Higher Education Students 2003/2004 (HEA, 2005) here: http://tinyurl.com/6f2xdn

Obama Win and the Implication on International Student Applications to the United States

I just read a very interesting article on the Guardian (United Kingdom) website on the impact that Barack Obama’s election could have on the international student recruitment efforts in the United States and among our leading competitors. Barack Obama’s win was celebrated around the world (particularly right here in Obama’s neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chicago) and was unlike anything I have ever witnessed before. The Guardian article provides an interesting perspective that “4/11 could be just as significant as 9/11 in terms of its impact on international student recruitment.” Time will tell how Obama’s election will affect international student mobility across the globe.

You can access the Guardian article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/05/internationalstudents-students

Les Etudiants Internationaux: chiffres clés / International Student Mobility: Key Figures

CampusFrance recently published the following French-English paper Les Etudiants Internationaux: chiffres clés / International Student Mobility: Key Figures. It’s a good read and should be of interest to many readers. You can access the report here:

http://editions.campusfrance.org/chiffres_cles/brochure_campusfrance_chiffres_cles08.pdf

Cross-Border Higher Education in the Caribbean

IHEC readers who are interested in global cross-border higher education trends will find a new publication (155 pages) focusing on the Caribbean to be of interest. The book Foreign Providers in the Caribbean: Pillagers or Preceptors? provides analysis of cross-border higher education in Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands. You can access the abstract and the entire book in PDF format here: http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/5310

Foreign Providers in the Caribbean: Pillagers or Preceptors? (2008)
Edited by: Stewart Marshall, Ed Brandon, Michael Thomas, Asha Kanwar and Tove Lyngra
Publisher: Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver

European Commission: Young People Mobility

From the Vol. 5, No.7, September 2008 IAU E-Bulletin

The High Level Expert Forum on Mobility set up by the European Commission presented its final report Learning Mobility, an Opportunity for All in July. The task of this Forum was to reflect and make recommendations on how to promote, improve and create more opportunities for the mobility of all European young people aged 16-29. http://ec.europa.eu/education/doc/2008/mobilityreport_en.pdf

Wissenschaft Weltoffen 2008 Facts and Figures on the International Nature of Studies and Research in Germany

In July, the DAAD and the University Information System (HIS) in Germany released the most recent data on foreign students in Germany in their Wissenschaft weltoffen 2008. You can access Wissenschaft weltoffen 2008 here: www.wissenschaft-weltoffen.de

Forecasting International Student Mobility by the British Council

The British Council has partnered with the Economist Intelligence Unit on a new project designed to predict international student demand for education. According to the British Council the project “revisits Vision 2020 (a British Council report from 2004 forecasting the global demand for international student places in English speaking destination countries) and builds on its strengths. However, the methodology used differs and so do the outputs. The model has been piloted in China and will be rolled out across the UK priority sending countries over the coming year. All macroeconomic market data used in the predictions will be updated frequently. The forecasting tool has statistical robustness which means that all of the findings can be measured against a degree of statistical confidence.” You can access more information here: www.britishcouncil.org/eumd-information-forecasting-student-mobility.htm

Educational Exchange Between the United States and China

The Institute of International Education (IIE) issued a new briefing paper in July, 2008 on the status of educational exchanges between the United States and China. You can access this briefing paper here: www.iie.org/researchpublications

Three Reports Released on Global Student Mobility

Three very interesting reports on global student mobility from Australia, Canada and New Zealand were recently released and are available online.

The first report from IDP Education entitled “Global Student Mobility: An Australian Perspective Five Years On” is available at: www.idp.com/pdf/GSM_Brochure_Oct07.pdf

The second report from the Educational Policy Institute (EPI) in Canada entitled “Student Mobility and Credit Transfer: A National and Global Survey” is available at: www.educationalpolicy.org/pub/pubpdf/credit.pdf

The third report from Education Counts in New Zealand entitled “International Student Enrolments in New Zealand 2001-2007: is available at: www.educationcounts.govt.nz