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The 'Global South' in the Transnational Student Mobility Network. Effects of Institutional Instability, Reputation of the Higher Education Systems, Post-Colonial Ties, and Culture
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EvaMaria Vögtle; Michael Windzio – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
In this article, we take a global perspective and analyse how state institutions constitute a countries' place in the global network of transnational student mobility. We use longitudinal social network analysis to investigate transnational student mobility patterns and find that fragile institutions act as a push factor by increasing outbound…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Developing Nations, Student Mobility, Longitudinal Studies
Southern Exposure: Levelling the Northern Tilt in Global Medical and Medical Humanities Education
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Naidu, Thirusha – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
Global medical education is dominated by a Northern tilt. Global universities' faculty and students dominate research, scholarship and teaching about what is termed global education. This tilt has been fixed in global biomedical education with some acknowledgement from the Global South of the comparative benefits of global exchange. Student…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Humanities Instruction, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations
The Internationalization of Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics: Appadurai's Ideas Explored
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Jokila, Suvi – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
The aim of this paper is to explore Appadurai's ideas of global cultural flows in the context of the internationalization of higher education in China. Studies on the internationalization of higher education have increased with the expansion of international activities on university campuses; however, more theoretical analysis in the field is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Developing Nations
Aspects of Internationalizing Education
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Reeves, Mary Elizabeth – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1978
Author discusses international educational exchanges' lack of unqualified success. One world dream not for everyone, as author cites examples of reaction to international exchange. Foreign student advisors must create means by which international understanding is promoted. Author states ways to accomplish this. World interdependence is now a…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Objectives, Foreign Student Advisers, Foreign Students
Embracing the Obvious.
Cassara, Beverly Benner – 1987
In large and small countries alike, adult educators can no longer be content with educating adults as though they live in a vacuum but must instead become international adult educators to some extent. This is not to say that adult educators must teach an international subject every day. What it does mean is that they must make international…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Governmental Objectives in Exchanges of Persons Programs.
Harkness, Albert, Jr. – 1977
The paper questions whether educational and cultural activities sponsored by the United States government should be aimed at foreign policy objectives or should be treated as ends in themselves. Arguments are presented by political leaders, educators, and government officials in favor of and against cultural exchange as a form of foreign policy…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Cultural Activities, Cultural Awareness