International Student Mobilities: a workshop at the University of Surrey

Monday 23 June 2008

International students are an increasingly visible presence within higher education in many countries, including the UK, and the recent trend in overseas study is widely predicted to continue. Research has begun to acknowledge this, addressing the international mobility of students as part of a wider interest in the transnational migration of highly skilled workers in a global knowledge economy. Most of this work, however, describes a limited pattern of student mobility – from non-English speaking to English-speaking countries, from East to West, and from developing to advanced economies. Very little attention has been paid to students who move from advanced English-speaking countries to pursue their studies overseas. This workshop seeks to address this significant gap in extant knowledge through an examination of the motivations and experiences of the increasing numbers of UK students and graduates choosing a foreign education.

Programme

1.30pm Registration and coffee

2.00pm Welcome and introductions

2.15pm ‘International Higher Education and the Mobility of UK Students’ Dr Rachel Brooks (University of Surrey) and

Dr Johanna Waters (University of Liverpool)

2.45pm 'UK students' outward mobility: insights from three projects'

Prof Russell King (Department of Geography and Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex)

3.15pm Discussion of papers and their policy implications. Chair:

Prof Mary Stuart (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Kingston University)

4.15pm Tea

Places at the workshop are free. If you would like to attend, please contact Rachel Brooks (r.brooks@surrey.ac.uk)