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Category: Internationalization

Comparing Internationalization Policies

Last month the British Council and NAFSA published an interesting pair of studies, which I had the good fortune to be involved with.  Three colleagues – Janet Ilieva, Vangelis Tsigirlis and Pat Killingley – wrote the main report (which, among other things, focussed on differences within Europe) and I contributed a companion report on the Americas.  The main report is interesting in a number of ways, notably its collection and collation of data on national research output (and the share thereof which involves international

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June 5, 2019 No Comments

Hi From NAFSA

I love the annual conference of the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA), which is being held this week in Washington DC.  NAFSA, for uninitiated, is both a conference with lots of interesting presentations on international education (I was doing one on International Education Policies in the Americas, as part of the work I have done with colleagues Janet Ilieva, Vangelis Tsiligiris and Pat Killingley for the British Council—watch the blog next week).   But it is also a massive

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May 30, 2019 No Comments

That Weird Budget Commitment on Student Mobility

If you recall, way back in the middle of March, there was a federal budget (see our analysis here).  And as increasingly seems to be the case with Liberal budgets these days, there were a lot of unknowns.  Stuff that hadn’t been thought through.  Announcements on vague generalities with no actual policies behind them. (At the beginning of the Trudeau era, someone said “these people from Queen’s Park are used to running a government with six people; you can run

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April 5, 2019 No Comments

Curricular Change and The Decline of Poland

Sometimes Canadian universities drive me up the wall.  Mostly, it’s when they start lobbying for other people to take action in areas where the clearest problems lie within their own wheelhouse.  I speak in particular of Study Abroad and Work-Integrated Learning.  To be clear, I am all for more study abroad and more work-integrated learning. They’re both straight-up great ideas.  But it seems to me that if you’re going out to lobby for money to improve something, you might want to

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March 6, 2019 1 Comment

The Four Logics of International Student Mobility

One of the significant challenges in analyzing policies around international student mobility is that there are multiple competing logics at work within the field.  However, the tensions between these competing logics are often not acknowledged, which makes it difficult to understand how to make choices between them. Today, we will look at four logics concerning in-bound student mobility, in order to disentangle them and promote sensible policy analysis. The first logic of internationalization is what I call the pilgrimage logic:

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February 11, 2019 1 Comment

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