The Policy Implications of the Global Flow of Tertiary Students: A Social Network Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Yin, Ming; Yeakey, Carol Camp
Titel	The Policy Implications of the Global Flow of Tertiary Students: A Social Network Analysis
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 45 (2019) 1, S.50-69 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
DOI	10.1080/03054985.2018.1489788
Schlagwörter	Social Networks; Network Analysis; Political Power; Global Approach; Immigrants; Skilled Workers; Comparative Analysis; Student Mobility; Study Abroad; Developing Nations; Disadvantaged; Brain Drain; Economic Factors; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; College Students; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Netzplantechnik; Politische Macht; Globales Denken; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Facharbeiter; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ökonomischer Faktor; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	In 2016, approximately 5 million students, about 2% of global tertiary enrolments, studied abroad. As globalisation of education advances, tertiary student mobility is an important channel through which highly skilled immigrants arrive and work in different nation states. Informed by the multidisciplinary internationalisation frameworks, this study applies social network analysis techniques to the UNESCO data, to explore and compare the international tertiary student mobility networks in 1999 and in 2012. Based on the network visualisation and statistical analyses, this research emphasises that an individual country's economic and political power and geographic location are increasingly significant in determining its position in the network. Compared to the 1999 networks, the developing world has played a more important role in the networks by becoming the new destination for study and sending out more students. Yet it is still the economically leading nations that serve as the critical bridges connecting the less developed countries/regions to the world. Underneath the seemingly balanced development, the developing nations might be in a more disadvantaged and peripheral position in 2012. This study is concluded with a discussion of the brain drain issue and how various nation states confront it in light of the global flow of tertiary students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01