COVID-19: Threat or Opportunity for the Portuguese Higher Education's Attractiveness for International Students?

Autor/inn/en	Sin, Cristina; Tavares, Orlanda; Aguiar, Joyce
Titel	COVID-19: Threat or Opportunity for the Portuguese Higher Education's Attractiveness for International Students?
Quelle	In: Journal of Studies in International Education, 27 (2023) 1, S.21-38 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sin, Cristina) ORCID (Tavares, Orlanda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1028-3153
DOI	10.1177/10283153221121396
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Foreign Countries; Foreign Students; Enrollment; Recruitment; Higher Education; Feedback (Response); Educational Strategies; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Einschulung; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehrstrategie
Abstract	The paper analyses the influence of COVID-19 on Portuguese institutions' intake of international students and their responses to the pandemic. Two dimensions are considered: quantitative impact on international enrolments and higher education institutions' strategies for the recruitment and support of international students. The first dimension is analysed through national statistics and comparison of enrolments over the past five years. Then, the institutional strategies implemented to encourage recruitment of new international students and to support existing ones during the lockdown are explored. Statistics show that COVID-19 had a negative impact on international enrolments, although less severe than expected. Growth has continued, but at a much slower pace than in the past few years. The slowdown in growth was much more pronounced in polytechnics than in universities. Additionally, the measures implemented by Portuguese higher education institutions suggest that these have coped with COVID-19 as an opportunity to rethink and redefine strategies. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01